On 10-08-07 05:46 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mike Pfaifferhigh.res.mike@gmail.comwrote:
The teacher at the lab is absolutely sold on the idea of using thehosts file to block out places like porn sites, gambling sites, facebook, and places like the pirate bay. For classroom machines I can see his point. Particularly since they are going through a different subnet than we are.
Doing that at the DNS level misses out on proxies, any site with DNS wildcards, and also relies on the application to Do The Right Thing. Your friend might want to spend some time configuring Squid in transparent proxy mode. There's also the Squidguard redirector that makes blocking bad sites easier.
Quite correct. The teacher spends his time going through and looking for proxies when the students access the "inappropriate sites". What ever makes him happy...
The Squid proxy we have in the lab is not accessible through the classroom. The classroom has been converted to a wireless system which is administered by the buildings IT folks. They already have barracuda running but there appears to be problems. The buildings IT folks have put the lab in the DMZ and let us administer it ourselves.
Sean
Later Mike
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