This is exactly what I want to do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I want to build an HTTP Proxy for Home
> I've considered using a proxy to help make the web "kid-safe" for all PCs in > the household, without having to install host-PC applications like > "Net-Nanny" and the like. However, a friend has tried this using a whitelist > approach, to disastrous results. It turns out almost all the sites have so > much included content from other foreign URLs that it made the whitelist > approach generally unmanageable. I'm wondering if anyone has had success > with a proxy used for kid-safe content filtering? > > On Monday 02 August 2004 10:42 am, Dan Monjar wrote: > > --On Sunday, August 01, 2004 01:56:15 PM -0400 Roy Vestal > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to build an HTTP Proxy for my home network. I'd like to use an > > > old notebook I have lying around. It's a P-90, 40MB RAM, 2GB HDD. Not > > > much of a machine, but for my use it should be plenty. I'm planning on > > > using Debian stable on it simply because FC1/2 and WBEL are just too > > > dang big and the notebook doesn't meet the requirements. > > > > > > Anyway, I was thinking of using Squid. Didn't know if anyone else had > > > suggestions or experience that they'd like to share. Anyone know of > > > howto's? I haven't check TLDP yet. > > > > Educate me please, how would having a proxy on that size machine for just a > > few users help you? I've always viewed proxies as helping when you have > > lots of memory for the cache and lots of users to take advantage of it. > > Not flammage, just an honest question. > > > > That said, I, too, have used Squid for quite a few years, inside the > > business, with great success. > > > > -- > > Dan Monjar > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
