Hi, I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from satanism to porn. One of the machines will be set up as a router anyway, since the public computer room gets its internet access from the town hall, and I've decided to make another subnet for it. Any recommendations for that? Niki
Niki Kovacs wrote:> Hi, > > I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running > CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find > some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first > reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from > satanism to porn. > > One of the machines will be set up as a router anyway, since the public > computer room gets its internet access from the town hall, and I've > decided to make another subnet for it. > > Any recommendations for that? > > Niki >I have DansGuardian set up on my home Linux server that acts as the router for our home network, and it does a great job of web filtering on the fly. (I have grade school kids at home). You basically configure a transparent proxy so all HTTP traffic is filtered, and it's configurable as to what categories you want to allow or block. I use RPMs available from RPMForge. http://dansguardian.org/ http://packages.sw.be/dansguardian/ -Greg
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:22 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:> Any recommendations for that?http://www.squidguard.org/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
> Hi, > > I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running > CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find > some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first > reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from > satanism to porn.Satanism? What, you're going to filter all religion? You could set up the browsers with filters - even google has "safe search", and you could set the browser options to be read-only, so no user can change it.> > One of the machines will be set up as a router anyway, since the public > computer room gets its internet access from the town hall, and I've > decided to make another subnet for it. > > Any recommendations for that?Sorry, haven't been involved with filtering. For that matter, is this *only* for children? If not, then the mayor is depriving the adult users of their rights of free speech (assuming this is in the US). mark
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 11:31 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> For that matter, is this *only* for children? If not, then the mayor is > depriving the adult users of their rights of free speech (assuming this is > in the US). > > mark--- Well well, you see in my type of IT I work in you Sign Away those First Amendment Rights before you even go to work for said company that I work for. I live in the US and Work in the US. Matter of fact our email policy is for internal use only and for work purposes only and logged for to and from destinations. People have been fired because of this. John