Hi,

Is there a way to display the "who" information without having to create
separate pages for each category?

Cheers,

Dan Hart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 12 November 2001 01:20
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: news.com being blocked / best blacklist to use?
> 
> 
> OK, now I understand what you meant. Maybe I can give you a 
> few pointers on getting to the bottom of this.
> 
> Step 1: Know where you were going. If you use the standard 
> redirect statement in your squidGuard.conf file the blocked 
> url will be in the address field on your browser when you are 
> looking at your block page.
> 
> Step 2: Know "who" stopped you. If your block page does not 
> give you that information, there is a low-tech way to know. 
> If you put your redirect statements in your dest blocks you 
> can use a different page for each block type. For example:
> -----------------------------------------
> dest porn {
>       domainlist              blacklists/porn/domains
>       urllist         blacklists/porn/urls
>       redirect                http://192.168.0.1/403prn.html
>       logfile         /usr/local/squidGuard/log/porn.log
> }
> 
> dest pornexp {
>       expressionlist  blacklists/porn/expressions
>       redirect                http://192.168.0.1/403prnexp.html
>       logfile         /usr/local/squidGuard/log/pornexp.log
> }
> 
> dest aggressive {
>       domainlist              blacklists/aggressive/domains
>       urllist         blacklists/aggressive/urls
>       redirect                http://192.168.0.1/403agrsv.html
>       logfile         /usr/local/squidGuard/log/aggressive.log
> }
> etc
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> In this case, all three of these block screens (403prn.html, 
> 403prnexp.html, 403agrsv.html) are exactly the same, except 
> for the file name and the <title> html tag (for example 
> <title>403 Forbidden (prn)</title>). When a user hits the 
> porn block, the address field contains the url that triggered 
> the block, and the Internet Explorer title bar contains "403 
> Forbidden (prn) - Microsoft Internet Explorer"
> 
> Step 3: Find out why you were stopped. Go to the appropriate 
> directory (in this case, porn) and type:
> 
> grep cnet.com domains | less
> 
> Check that list for matches. Then type:
> 
> grep cnet.com urls | less
> 
> And check that list for matches.
> 
> I would always start with the root domain and check all of 
> the matches.
> 
> Step 4: Correct the problem (if there is one). If you are 
> running on the text files, simply delete the appropriate 
> entries and issue:
> 
> squid -k reconfigure
> 
> If you have created databases, create the approriate diff 
> files and go from there.
> 
> Let me know if you need more.
> 
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 4:20 PM
> To: Rick Matthews
> Subject: Re: news.com being blocked / best blacklist to use?
> 
> 
> Rick Matthews wrote:
> >
> > > I am finding that news.com is sometimes being blocked.
> > > The home page loads, but some of the urls are blocked.
> >
> > Are you saying that http://www.news.com loads, but (1) some of the 
> > graphics on the page do not load? Or is it that (2) the 
> page has links 
> > that lead to blocked pages?
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> The situation is (2).  The links are of the form
> 
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7832292.html?tag=mn_hd

> > I am not on the network that SG is running on, so
> > I can't give you an exact URL.
>
> I don't understand this statement. If the issue is (2) above, point at

> the blocked link on the http://www.news.com page (without clicking on
> it) and read the url from the status line at the very bottom of the 
> internet explorer window.

Mea culpa; I meant that "I am not on the network that SG is on at this
time", since I am at home and not at work.

> > Could it be that the numbered urls are being
> > interpreted as IP addresses and therefore blocked?
>
> Would you please explain this question a bit further?

You can specify a numeric IP address in octal and it will resolve (if
the ip address was 255.255.255.0 the address would be ffffff00, for
example - of course there is no such machine on the net) .  Perhaps SG
is looking at the numbers and checking against an octal representation
of a blocked IP address?

> I'm sure we can get this straightened out with just a bit more 
> information.

I will post more info Monday when I am in front of the machine that
connects to SG and can gather exact information.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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