On Friday 09 January 2009 20:40:33 Grant wrote: > > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with > > exceptions for the domains you need. > > Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges?
If you wget your packages using http, then yes. You could then: 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources or 2. wget using ftp or 3. set up a proxy The easiest is #2 by far -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com