[RndTbl] Learning a little about /etc/hosts

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 10-08-07 05:46 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mike Pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>         The teacher at the lab is absolutely sold on the idea of using the
>> hosts file to block out places like porn sites, gambling sites,
>> facebook, and places like the pirate bay. For classroom machines I can
>> see his point. Particularly since they are going through a different
>> subnet than we are.
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> Doing that at the DNS level misses out on proxies, any site with DNS
> wildcards, and also relies on the application to Do The Right Thing. Your
> friend might want to spend some time configuring Squid in transparent proxy
> mode. There's also the Squidguard redirector that makes blocking bad sites
> easier.

	Quite correct. The teacher spends his time going through and looking 
for proxies when the students access the "inappropriate sites". What 
ever makes him happy...

	The Squid proxy we have in the lab is not accessible through the 
classroom. The classroom has been converted to a wireless system which 
is administered by the buildings IT folks. They already have barracuda 
running but there appears to be problems. The buildings IT folks have 
put the lab in the DMZ and let us administer it ourselves.

> Sean

				Later
				Mike


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