"Michael C. Robinson" <[email protected]> writes: > Read the last paragraph first.
Wouldn't it help to put it at the top, then? (FWIW, I suspect that -talk would be a better place for this anyway, despite the technical content.) > OpenDNS does a great job of blocking certain web sites when asked to, but > hulu is not one of them. Hulu is carrying some hard core material. [...] > What is the best way to address side cases like Hulu that OpenDNS with the > decency settings set to high doesn't help with? This is the technical > problem that I hope people will discuss. Pay money for the service, run outside your home. In Australia almost every major ISP could offer the facility, and they were generally based on one of the big commercial services who offered filtering of communication. This is the only mechanism that will actually prevent access to the material with assurances of success[1], because there is no way to bypass it without seeking another connection to the Internet.[2] The next best thing is to obtain one of the range of consumer routers that provide the facility as a commercial service[3], or to install http://dansguardian.org/ and use either there commercial or free feeds. (Effectiveness depends, in many ways, on how much you pay for the list to be supported, which is probably no surprise to anyone.) (SoothWall worked well for a former client of mine who used it, some years back, but I have no current experience.) Finally, you could use the OpenDNS service and run a Squid or equivalent web proxy, and maintain the blacklist yourself. If they are almost totally effective this might be a low enough maintenance cost that you can accept it. Daniel Well, you could also use the inverse: produce a whitelist of approved sites. Watch out for things like Wikipedia that include sometimes objected to content along with their otherwise valuable stuff. Footnotes: [1] ...but don't forget to check those T&C to see how much the service care about over-blocking or under-blocking sites, and what recourse you have when you and they don't agree about something. [2] Which, naturally, is a significant problem when it comes to preventing kids from getting access to this stuff - at least generally. I have no idea if you have kids, or it would be a problem with them, so am only speaking generally here. :) [3] Netgear did, a while back, and I know someone who was happy with their implementation. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
