Re: Good Internet Filtering

[<melissa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here at The Linux Box, we support squid because it is powerful, fast and
almost endlessly extensible..


Melissa Johnson
Office Manager		melissa@linuxbox.nu
The Linux Box		www.linuxbox.nu

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Scott Van Singel wrote:

> Group,
>
>   As a school IT director we are forced by the state to have a Internet
> Filtering up and running when the kids come back to school.
> The other day, a IT bubba at Burr Oak Tool and Gauge showed me something
> that was pretty interesting. He used Squid with Squid guard on his Linux
> (Red Hat 6.2) and can limit the access to the internet.
> He has a list  of sites (Downloaded from a vendors website) and people
> can not get to those sites. He also has a list contains the ACL for the
> work. You must have a login and password to get out.
> I thought that was pretty interesting and would like to check this out.
> Does anyone know of another possible Internet filtering or blocking
> package that I can run on a Linux box. I would like to keep Linux
> running in our network but, we are finding it hard to run applications
> on Linux.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> --
> Scott Van Singel
> Technology Director
> Sturgis Public Schools
> 216 Vinewood
> Sturgis, MI. 49091
> Office: (616) 659-1512
> Fax: (616) 651-1571
> Email: svansingel@sturgis.k12.mi.us
>
>