Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 05:27 10/04/2012, you wrote: Hello all. Thanks in advance for your time and comments. Perhaps this app may help you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/teachercp/ There are commercial apps too that do the same and more. HTH Jorge Biquez ___

RE: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Terrence Koeman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 at 05:27:24, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Fbsd8
Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. snip In the classrooms we have very old PCs running XP. In some of my classes I am using Freebsd and Ubuntu running on a USB. So each student have one USB and they work that way booting from their 4GB USB stick. (it is slow but it has worked until now). One

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Jerome Herman
On 10/04/2012 05:27, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/9/2012 10:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: As always there are some experts that controls everything and do not let you change anything because is their kingdom. What do they control? The network infrastructure? One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some students in the other lab and people that helps there waste bandwithd seeing videos, movies (youtube, cuevana, serieid, etc) and spend lot of time on facebook

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:21:58 -0500, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy using that machine. Prove your point and then explain that this can be done transparently if you had

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:27:24 Jorge Biquez wrote: As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit with non profit -- no cost? One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were Have you checked hosts? A rough but easy way. Erich

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Felder
I've been in this position before. Transparent proxy running Squid and Dansguardian will solve most of your problems. And having a local cache will help fix your low bandwidth issue. Your skill level and networking knowledge will determine how achievable this is, but it's a great solution

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. Jorge Biquez At 10:42 p.m. 09/04/2012, Robert Huff wrote: Jorge Biquez writes: Any comments you have that could help me to solve this

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 13:46, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy