Blocking web sites

lovswr · 10-30-2003, 07:53 PM

I use my redhat 9 box as my gateway/firewall (via eartlink DSL) for the web. Is there any way that I can block web sites on a global basis. In particular I want to block www.gator.com & www.claria.com. I know that I could go to each machine & stop them via the hosts file, but that seems too cumbersome as I add more sites in the future. I use turtlefirewall & I suppose I could try to add the raw ip's & stop them from passing throuth the firewall itself, but that too, seems much to unelagant.

joseph · 10-30-2003, 08:35 PM

the best way is to deny it entering your firewall, so you must do some in your firewall.

Jerre Cope · 10-30-2003, 09:35 PM

Use squid and squidGuard
see http://www.squid-cache.org/

lovswr · 10-31-2003, 05:05 AM

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Originally posted by Jerre Cope
Use squid and squidGuard
see http://www.squid-cache.org/

A proxy huh, I really don't want that overhaed, but maybe that is the only way.

linux inside · 10-31-2003, 08:41 AM

dont you have a router that lets you block a list of sites, i do i have a linksys router and i believe it can do that ,and im stuck with earthlink.
try going to 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1
thats could work

Jerre Cope · 10-31-2003, 09:34 AM

It isn't much overhead and I think you will find that you will need to block more sites than you think you do. Squid is the basis for many commercial products. If you are really interested in solving the problem you will need a black list on the order of 100,000 entries.

lovswr · 11-03-2003, 12:10 PM

Ok...I got a very simple squid up this past weekend via webmin. Since I use my RH9 as the gateway & Ihave gator blocked in the host file in that machine, any browser on my network that is pointed to squid, gets protected automatically. My hits friday were 100% missed but now I'm up to almost 40% just over the weekend. I barely understand how squid works, but I guess I'll play with it some more.