Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:40:02 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:48:04 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? Thanks, Mark It would depend on how your home network is set up. A squid proxy could work for you. What are you trying to accomplish? Thanks. I'll look into squid. I guess with squid all of that machine's requests go to this machine and then it forwards stuff on, keeping a record? Is that the basic idea? If so, does that mean that all traffic for the machine in question actually does through the squid machine? If so that might mean too much wireless traffic the way we are set up. yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's never used a proxy. ;-) I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either through reading or use. do all packets for the machine using the proxy go through the proxy? Or is it more like a DNS server where just the URL's go through the proxy to figure out what to do? Right now the machine under observation is on one wireless leg. The one machine that's on all the time is on anothe wireless leg. Neither is directly tied to the cable modem. If the traffic pattern looks like M_OBSERVE - router - M_SQUID - router - Internet - router - M_SQUID - router - M_OBSERVE I use ipcop as my internet gateway/router, so all traffic goes through it, and thats where I run squid. ipcop does it all for you, and you might be interested in the copplus addon or the squidguard addon from http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/ The I created a lot of extra wireless traffic, especially since the machine being observed seems to like to watch a lot of gaming videos. If it's just addresses, then no big deal. If it's the whole data stream then it's not going to work well. On the other hand I have a MythTV frontend that is not always turned on but could be, I suppose, which is on the router, as are a few of my audio machines. I'm loath to start putting this stuff on machines in my studio Or is it just the addresses that are proxied? As for purpose, as I said earlier my wife wants to know all web sites that a certain computer on our network visits over time. trouble with the kids? :-) Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
Hi, On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:40:02 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's never used a proxy. ;-) I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either through reading or use. do all packets for the machine using the proxy go through the proxy? Or is it more like a DNS server where just the URL's go through the proxy to figure out what to do? No, it forwards all traffic. And there's another thing: You'd have to configure it at the target computer. That is, one can deconfigure it... but read below, there's an option... The I created a lot of extra wireless traffic, especially since the machine being observed seems to like to watch a lot of gaming videos. If it's just addresses, then no big deal. If it's the whole data stream then it's not going to work well. Well, in order to log the traffic, you'll have to intercept it. Probably, a text filtering firewall looking for --dport 80 and HTTP/1. at the start of the packet would suffice. You can even use a firewall to make your proxy into a transparent proxy - i.e., all traffic is intercepted at network level and redirected through the proxy. This only works if the firewalling computer is at router level. Maybe another idea would be to just sniff the WLAN in monitor mode and use a packet filter to match TCP:80/HTTP packets. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? In Firefox: Edit -- Preferences -- Select the Privancy Icon and then click the + sign beside History. You can enter the number of days that you want to retain history for sites visited. Enter a number of days that you think is appropriate. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? Thanks, Mark It would depend on how your home network is set up. A squid proxy could work for you. What are you trying to accomplish? - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDbVegLYGSSmmWCZMRAlF0AJ9lpZVCij9oCDTQ1SZ6XcGtlQ2aHgCcCkqR bUzndiMWT2QhaWJSTu7Kqwg= =FiDy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
On 11/5/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? Thanks, Mark It would depend on how your home network is set up. A squid proxy could work for you. What are you trying to accomplish? Thanks. I'll look into squid. I guess with squid all of that machine's requests go to this machine and then it forwards stuff on, keeping a record? Is that the basic idea? If so, does that mean that all traffic for the machine in question actually does through the squid machine? If so that might mean too much wireless traffic the way we are set up. Or is it just the addresses that are proxied? As for purpose, as I said earlier my wife wants to know all web sites that a certain computer on our network visits over time. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:48:04 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? Thanks, Mark It would depend on how your home network is set up. A squid proxy could work for you. What are you trying to accomplish? Thanks. I'll look into squid. I guess with squid all of that machine's requests go to this machine and then it forwards stuff on, keeping a record? Is that the basic idea? If so, does that mean that all traffic for the machine in question actually does through the squid machine? If so that might mean too much wireless traffic the way we are set up. yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. Or is it just the addresses that are proxied? As for purpose, as I said earlier my wife wants to know all web sites that a certain computer on our network visits over time. trouble with the kids? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites
On 11/5/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:48:04 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? Thanks, Mark It would depend on how your home network is set up. A squid proxy could work for you. What are you trying to accomplish? Thanks. I'll look into squid. I guess with squid all of that machine's requests go to this machine and then it forwards stuff on, keeping a record? Is that the basic idea? If so, does that mean that all traffic for the machine in question actually does through the squid machine? If so that might mean too much wireless traffic the way we are set up. yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's never used a proxy. ;-) I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either through reading or use. do all packets for the machine using the proxy go through the proxy? Or is it more like a DNS server where just the URL's go through the proxy to figure out what to do? Right now the machine under observation is on one wireless leg. The one machine that's on all the time is on anothe wireless leg. Neither is directly tied to the cable modem. If the traffic pattern looks like M_OBSERVE - router - M_SQUID - router - Internet - router - M_SQUID - router - M_OBSERVE The I created a lot of extra wireless traffic, especially since the machine being observed seems to like to watch a lot of gaming videos. If it's just addresses, then no big deal. If it's the whole data stream then it's not going to work well. On the other hand I have a MythTV frontend that is not always turned on but could be, I suppose, which is on the router, as are a few of my audio machines. I'm loath to start putting this stuff on machines in my studio Or is it just the addresses that are proxied? As for purpose, as I said earlier my wife wants to know all web sites that a certain computer on our network visits over time. trouble with the kids? :-) Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
