Restrict access to Internet

[Amit Patel]

Thankx for all the reply. I will try out squid setup in a few days.

Regards,
Amit.


On 6/17/07, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> debiani386 at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat June 16 2007 6:05 pm, 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nils
> >
> > nils >> ubuntu comes with its own proxy server progra right? cause you
> > click system, point to administrator and you see "network proxy" or is
> > that something different?
>
> Well, if it is similar to what you get in Kubuntu with K-Menu -> System
> settings -> Internet & Network / Connections -> Proxy, then it is
> something different.
>
> A proxy server is a program which sits in the path between your
> application and the internet. One use of a proxy server is for company
> networks to limit the internet access of the employees. Then there is no
> direct link possible from any particular workstation to the internet. All
> traffic has to be routed through the proxy server. The proxy server
> usually can be reached on one particular port of the host computer, and
> e.g. your browser needs to know which host/port to connect.  At the above
> mentioned setup option you can tell several of your applications, how they
> can reach the proxy server.
>
>
> Nils
>
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