On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Kulkarni Shantanu < [email protected]> wrote:
> * Ashutosh Adkar <[email protected]> [090319 09:09]: > > One of my friends office has the requirement that he only wants desktops > in > > his office to be able to access a particular website. Access to any other > > domain should be blocked.Is there a good Linux based solution for this? > > google for "squid". > Yes, squid will do. Squid is the 'apache' of proxy servers - proven and widely used. If you want a light-weight one then, have a look at tinyproxy. Its the 'abyss' among proxy servers :) However, an issue in introducing a proxy server is, all the browsers for all the users on all the machines have to be updated to use the proxy, lest some user might get a surprise. But, this is not too much work if the deployment is small or the users themselves are techy. I guess, if he has a firewall setup at the gateway, then he can block internet traffic to other websites without having to put a proxy. That will do away the browser and proxy configuration. Experts, kindly CMIIW... My 2 cents. - Pranav _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
