Re: web content control

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/17/04

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    tony barnwell <tony_barnwell2004@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    ( top posting fixed! )

    > Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message news:<ir6l0c.pcv.ln@news.heiming.de>...
    > > tony barnwell <tony_barnwell2004@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
    [..]>
    > > > But i wonder if a linuxbox with two network cards could filter the
    > > > whole network for child hostile content. With a proxy or cache
    > > > facility. Dunno really. Anyone?
    > >
    > > Yep, that the preferred way. What you want is a squid proxy
    > > server, and running dansguard or alike content filter on the box,
    > > try a google search about it. You should find enough info to get
    > > you going.

    > Thanx that seems to be the way to go.
    > How about privoxy?
    > http://www.privoxy.org/
    > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
    > Seems as though there are rpms for suse and redhat.

    Can't comment on this one, never heard. Squid just works, a
    great piece of sw that simply rocks! You can have content
    filtering with squid&squidguard or even more features running
    dansguard with squid. Squid comes with many distro per default.

    Good luck

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