[olug] Proxy / Filter server for family

[Rob Townley]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> Windows boxes: K9 Web Filter (http://www1.k9webprotection.com/). It's
> browser-agnostic and doesn't rely on any web proxy configuration
> settings like a lot of stuff will.
>
> Be sure to take away local admin on those windows boxes! It's just like
> giving people root on a Linux/*NIX box; if you don't anything and
> everything you do will be trivially bypassed.
>
> The big advantage of the K9 Web Filter over other freeware options is it
> logs which web sites your kids visit - OpenDNS won't do that.
>
> Todd Christopher Hamilton wrote:
>> I would like to utilize some proxy/filter/audit type software for to
>> help my family more safely surf the net.  any suggestions?  I have a
>> debian box with a couple of dozer boxes (my workstation and the family
>> laptop.)  I use the debian box as a ssh server and an svn repo for
>> some development work I do.
>>
>
>
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>
> Phil Brutsche
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OpenDNS turned dns logging back on in the last few weeks.  It wont
tell you which person was using the computer, but it does tell you
which networks visited which domains and which ones were blocked.

A NAT between the PCs and the proxy would be easier, right?  No
special proxy config for any application that works with a proxy.

internet <--->  proxy server <---> NAT firewall <---> home network

Somethings would still of course be broken because they will not work
with a proxy, but overall this would make running a proxy much more
palatable.