Restrict access to Internet

[Scott Lockwood]

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 20:05 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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. 

Agreed. 

sudo apt-get install squid
man squid (or, if it supports it, and you prefer, info squid)

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood