Mark Crane wrote:
> The following options will work on Alix:
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> 1. You can also point your DNS to OpenDNS and setup filtering with
> them. Make it more secure by blocking other DNS providers.
I'll have to check if OpenDNS can do the filtering as is required. Thanks.
> 2. Anotther thing you can do is setup DNS forwarder. The domain you
> don't want you define in DNS forwarder with an IP like 127.0.0.1 so
> that it goes nowhere.
But if I want to blanket block and then allow only some, would this
work? How would I setup the DNS forwarder in this case?
> Mark J Crane
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> Mark Dueck wrote:
>> Rainer Duffner wrote:
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>>> Gary Buckmaster schrieb:
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>>>> Mark Dueck wrote:
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>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to do website filtering on an Alix board? I setup
>>>>> some
>>>>> businesses with gateways using squid and dansguardian to blanket
>>>>> block
>>>>> the internet, and then allowing access on a per ip basis or allow
>>>>> certain websites for the rest of the users. Is this possible on an
>>>>> alix
>>>>> board using a CF by taking of caching, but using the dansguardian? I
>>>>> have see others asking the same, but not seen any replies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or can this be setup using rules?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>> No, the embedded platform does not work with packages. Further,
>>>> squid is an extreme resource hog and would kill most Alix board
>>>> resources even under fairly light load. Lastly, Dansguardian isn't
>>>> licensed to be free for commercial use, so you may well be violating
>>>> their license by installing it for businesses.
>>>> -Gary
>>>>
>> Ok, I see I will have to reconsider my dansguardian usage. I see that I
>> can buy a license though, so with that it would be alright.
>>
>>> Well, with rules only, I guess it would work if you only have a
>>> handful of websites (B2B scenario) that are "OK" to visit.
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>> If I would implement this with rules, I would have to all the allowed
>> websites to the top of the list, and then below that block the ip
>> address range that should not browse other sites? should that work?
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>>> Rainer
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