I can speak to the effectiveness and ease of use of Astaro as
recently as a year ago. I used it for years under its free
educational license as the firewall at my prior job, and it worked
very, very, well.
Matthew
On Sep 22, 2007, at 7:27 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
If you have an old
I couldn't tell from web sites what the Apple routers can do.
My Netgear MIMO allows me to schedule when blocking occurs and to use
patterns for blocking (like runescape, or even rune to block
runescape.com and rune-hq.com).
I would think that if you couldn't find it via the web configuration
I wouldn't use the service to block anything from children or anyone
else [I don't like any kind of censorship], but am noting that the
feature is available. Use it judiciously.
It is interesting to see them try to innovate the old DNS concept. In
addition to blocking they also provide
My original intent was to control the time a site would be
available. Not to pretend it does not exist. Not particularly
interested in censorship. Just moderating any particular sites
availability. Soon as I get a chance I'll see if OpenDNS will fit
the bill.
I will admit to pulling
Can anyone with a apple router tell him how to block the site? Unless there
is no one here that has one?
Mike
On 9/20/07, Matthew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple Router, not that I know of.A firewall, absolutely. That
said, OS X has parental controls built in - you can allow only
Years ago, when my kids were younger, I too needed a way to control
their surfing online. What I did was I built my own firewall using an
older unused computer and a free Linux software product called
Smoothwall. I have since moved on to a similar product called IPCop.
Whichever you choose,
Can anyone with a apple router tell him how to block the site? Unless there
is no one here that has one?
You mean give a poor answer just to pacify him so he goes away? I think
he would have to pay more money to get that level of support.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into helping me resolve the
parenting aspect of my problem. The circular logic of your last two
sentences escapes me however.
There's a difference between a lockdown and guidance. When you're around
to provide encouragement and rewards for doing
A router between the airport and the broadband? I thought the airport WAS
the router?? The thing costs almost 200 dollars what does it do? Why have
the airport there at all if he can spend 70 bux on a good router?
Is that why no one will answer his question? Is the airport so hamstrung
you
State of Delaware schools use Blue Coat, http://www.bluecoat.com/. Try
their free K9 home version, http://www.k9webprotection.com/. It uses a
web-based database. Unless your kids are fairly young, they'll get
around it soon. Best thing about it -- it's free. Platform: Windows.
FAQ claims that
Thanks for the link to OpenDNS. It looks very interesting.
Interesting to note that one of the categories of sites blocked are sites
that provide information about proxy servers.
You can check URLs to see if they are blocked. I'm glad to see that
Reporters Without Borders (rsf.org)
Betty,
Thanks for the link to OpenDNS. It looks very interesting.
Jim
A few weeks ago I requested DNS services that work better than the ones
I'm using. Thank Fred Holmes and John de Carlo, since they suggested
OpenDNS to me on the list first, recently anyway.
I wouldn't use the
-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] controlling IP address access
What's the point?
There's nothing you can block your kids from seeing that they can't see
somewhere else. Guaranteed that they have at least one friend, most
likely many, whose computer isn't blocked. Set your default
See my 12:29 post earlier in the day. The issue is homework. The sex is inevitable and will take care of itself. College entry is not inevitable. I'd like the option of blocking RuneScape and the like until the homework is done.
Why not block access completely until homework is done, and
I appreciate the time and effort you put into helping me resolve the
parenting aspect of my problem. The circular logic of your last two
sentences escapes me however.
Perhaps I initially asked the wrong question. Or, more likely,
needlessly gave voice to incorrect assumptions about the
I want to be able to control access to certain web sites my kids may
have occasion to visit. I have seen it done using a Linksys router
but have been unable to duplicate this with my Apple router.
Am using OSX 10.4+
Apple Airport router (not the new Extreme model)
Any ideas?
Thanks, jim
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] controlling IP address access
I want to be able to control access to certain web sites my kids may
have occasion to visit. I have seen it done using a Linksys router
but have been unable to duplicate this with my Apple router.
Am using OSX 10.4+
Apple Airport router
How smart are the kids? Putting the address in the hosts file like
127.0.0.1 www.lots-o-porn.com would deny access to the web site, but
not if the kid new the actual ip address
Kids typically set up proxy servers to get around blocks.
It is probably more effective to explain to the kids that
Thanks for the input.
Our issue here is too much time on the likes of Runescape and not
enough on homework!
Guess it is back the the heavy handed approach.
On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
How smart are the kids? Putting the address in the hosts file like
127.0.0.1
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