[olug] Network filtering with ipchains

Jon thechunk at thechunk.dhs.org
Fri Jun 15 23:04:12 UTC 2001


Sorry for the horrible wording.  I want to approve the sites myself.  Anyone know how to manage my own list of approved sites?

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Quoting Jon <thechunk at thechunk.dhs.org>:
> 
> > I am curious again about ipchains / iptables.  I know you guys have to
> > be getting tired of my questions.
> 
> Nah, never!
> 
> > Anyway I have a computer for my kids and would like to block all outgoing 
> > traffic from there computer to the internet but still have them on my 
> > internal network.
> 
> iptables -A output -s <IP of the computer to block> -j REJECT
> 
> > OK that is the first step.  The second part is I would like to open 
> > connections for them to parent "approved" sites that we deem worthwhile / 
> > acceptable for them.
> 
> That's a tricky issue (who do you trust to "approve" sites?) as well as totally 
> unrelated to netfilter.
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
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