Restrict access to Internet

[Nils Kassube]

Amit Patel wrote:
> Folks,
>    I was wondering if it was possible to limit users access to only
> selected list of sites on the internet and block all the rest. Lets say
> for example I want my users to access only ubuntu.com and all pages
> underneath ubuntu.combut users cannot access anything else such as
> yahoo.com or amazon.com, etc.
>    Is something like this possible in ubuntu ?
>    I am aware of the hosts file and adding entries to it, but it isnt
> exactly flexible.

I think you want a proxy server which can limit the access. Have a look at 
squid or wwwoffle. Both are available from the repositories.


Nils