On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 15:07, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:54, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > On 19 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> >> >> >> ... >> >> Why do you want to do this? ... I don't understand why. >> >> What is your justification for doing that? >> > >> > To prevent his kids from watching YouPorn. >> > >> > Stroller. >> >> In that case, isn't putting >> >> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED >> >> into /etc/hosts easier? >> >> Or just set up a proxy. >> >> Joe >> >> -- >> There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and >> those who can't. > > No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with > pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still > the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have > foolproof solutions. > > The idea of proxy is very valid(in particular the transparent proxy > implementation), mixed with mime-type handling could do the trick. What > complicates the situation slightly is that it is to be done for just one > user. I don't personally use proxy so not sure about the implementation > details. Perhaps somebody with the usage experience can provide a > detailed solution, once we are sure as to the reason for the question.
I did a quick google for "linux parental control", turned out there are a couple of solutions, each with their strengths and weaknesses ofc. If it's parental control that the OP is after, then he can have a look at them. Then again, we are only guessing the OP's intention. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.
