On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mike Pfaiffer
<high.res.mike@gmail.com> wrote:
The teacher at the lab is absolutely sold on the idea of using the
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.
Sean