<div>Use Squid.Its the best proxy .. I have used it before on RH not tried it in Ubuntu..</div> <div> </div> <div>Cheers</div> <div>Vignesh </div> <div>On 9/1/06, Kristian Rink <<a href="mailto:kristian@zimmer428.net">kristian@zimmer428.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris; Am Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:09:24 -0500 schrieb "Chris Lemire" <<a href="mailto:linux.user400354@gmail.com">linux.user400354@gmail.com</a>>: > 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)? > 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 - -- Kristian Rink * <a href="http://zimmer428.net">http://zimmer428.net </a> * jab: <a href="mailto:kawazu@jabber.ccc.de">kawazu@jabber.ccc.de</a> icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "One dreaming alone, it will be only a dream; many dreaming together is the beginning of a new reality." (Hundertwasser) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE99EocxBAPOA1m6wRAs/9AKClIuyp0lmdixKazZxfzgqEFBA+EQCfV2SG wxTy2c9ibzaSpkV8TlnDM0I= =JrkY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> -- Registered Linux User : 418463