blocking websites

[VIGNESH]

Use Squid.Its the best proxy .. I have used it before on RH not tried it in
Ubuntu..

Cheers
Vignesh


On 9/1/06, Kristian Rink <kristian at zimmer428.net> wrote:
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> Chris;
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> Am Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:09:24 -0500
> schrieb "Chris Lemire" <linux.user400354 at gmail.com>:
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> > Is there any better way to block websites than using iptables? I
> > would like to block all website's on the myspace server.
>
> For that, using some proxy software is a better approach. Squid has
> already been mentioned before, maybe something "lighter" like privoxy
> or wwwoffle will also do. To do so, however, you either have to set
> your browsers to use that very proxy for the request or set up
> transparent proxying so they have to go through it no matter whether or
> not they want to.
>
>
> However, be aware that blocking access to network sites might be
> considered a form of censorship and, thus, not be what you want to do.
> Perhaps there are better options - why exactly do you want to block
> myspace (personally, I can think of thousands of reasons to do so, but
> what are yours)?
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> > I'd also like to block all instant messaging chatting from this
> > computer.
>
> This should be done pretty easily using iptables by either locking down
> the protocols needed by those IM tools or (better) to set up a few
> rules on what connections are explicitely allowed and block the rest.
>
> Anyhow, given your users are smart enough, be warned that those
> restrictions might be null and void the very moment your users either
> discover how to do tunneling or find out that there are web-based IM
> environments that rely upon HTTP exclusively. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Kris
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