In addition or alternative, we could suggest a service: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/
"How do I start using OpenDNS? Take 2 minutes and change your DNS. Nothing to download or install, and OpenDNS is free." I use OpenDNS for its DNS service, which has worked great. However, I have never tried its content blocking, so I don't know how good or bad it is. Regards, - Robert On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Matthew Juneau <m...@bworks.org> wrote: > I know this is something that's been discussed a number of times, but > I think I may have finally found something resembling (or approaching > resembling?) a working solution. > > Enough superlatives and greyness in that for you? =) > > Anyways, I stumbled across a couple ubuntuforums threads/posts > discussing using Dan's Guardian with tinyproxy: (squid is overkill.) > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207008 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1222237 > > I've tested it out on a Hardy VM, and it seems to work fairly well. > It's transparent, which means you don't have to specify a proxy in the > browser. It's global, so it works for all users. > > I do have some concerns however... > > The installation and configuration doesn't bother me so much. We > could do that at the shop. > > Updating blacklists doesn't bother me so much either. The Multnomah > Education Service District in Oregon maintains a blacklist > [http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/ > ] and we could easily whip up a script to do all the magic and > schedule it in cron. > > No, what worries me is if a parent wants something in particular > (black|white)listed... Because this would normally require editing a > text file, which as we all know, is the bane of Linux's > existence. ;) Oh yeah, and restarting the daemon. > > There appears to have been at one time a Dan's Guardian module for > webmin, but it's mostly MIA now. I've not seen much in the way of a > GUI either. > > Questions? Comments? Snide remarks? > > m. > :wq!
