At 01:32 PM 9/20/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >I want to be able to have all web traffic filter through my Linux >server. I need to be able to log all activity. Who made the request and >what pages they went to. I also need to be to use a white list. Only >allowing access to certain sites rather then a blacklist which just >refuses access to certain sites. I have been looking at the squid >package but it seems to be more of a web cache then a proxy. At least >all the documentation I have read on has be cache specific. Any >suggestions on what software I should run and maybe a link to the docs. >Thanks!
squid is a caching proxy server. Whether it will do what you want specifically, that I do not know, especially the whitelist part. But it is a proxy server. The other well-known proxy server for Linux is junkbuster (I think www.junkbusters.com, but try Google to be sure). A recent(?) successor to it is something called "privoxy", but I'm not familiar with the details (may just be a Debian repackaging to deal with trademark issues). Its focus is a bit different from yours, but it might do what you want. A few years ago, there was a project to develop a proxy server for schools, designed to prevent kids from accessing "inappropriate" sites. I think it died out for lack of developer interest, but I'm not certain of that ... you might search around on K-12 lists for links to any version of it that survives. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
