Thanks Rick, squidguard and all the folks on this mailing list. It is great that
everyone is so helpful. I used the info Rick gave me and it worked great. Of course
I restarted the machine and then had to fight with iptables and my firewall settings,
I could'nt remember how I got the automatic redirect to work, then I fixed
it.....AGAIN! Document...Document...Document, otherwise you will find it hard to
repeat your success....or failure.
Well seems to be working now.
Another odd thing though.....when I try a site on the blacklist, I get rerouted to
this site:
http://eps.new.search.new.net/apps/eps/eps.cgi?cid=newn6CPZ&dp_lp=16&dp_p4pid=oingo_inclusion_xml_19&dp_format=1.3&s=www.whitehouse.com&nnreq=dfedf85d770949b8865304ee2b1da970
Why? Can I substitute my own html page for when it matches a "bad" site? Maybe a
page that says, bad bad, you have tried to go to somewhere you shouldn't go......
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Matthews [mailto:Rick@;Matthews.net]
Sent: Sat 11/9/2002 9:06 AM
To: John Sutherland; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: RE: It works!! Additional Configuring of Squidguard
John Sutherland wrote:
>
> It works! I can't beleive it.
Super! It's amazing how a little success can keep you going, isn't
it!
> Now how can I replace banner adds with my own graphic? Where in
> the SquidGuard.conf file to I put the statement? Is it a redirect
> statement?
It's easier than you think it is, and it makes a big difference in
browsing speed!
Ads are blocked with a destination group, just like porn. You then
replace the ad graphic with a small (1x1) transparent gif. The
web page will resize the blank gif as required. One secret to
successful ad blocking is using an expressionlist. I also merge an
independent list of ad servers into my ads/domains file (it is
available in rm-blacklists.tar.gz below).
Here's an example of the changes to your config file:
dest ads {
domainlist blacklists/ads/domains
urllist blacklists/ads/urls
expressionlist blacklists/ads/expressions
redirect http://192.168.44.1/1x1.gif
logfile blocked.log
}
Here are a few links you may find handy:
1x1 transparent gif:
http://home1.gte.net/res0pj61/squidguard/1x1.gif
My ads/expression list:
http://home1.gte.net/res0pj61/squidguard/ads.expressions
My blacklists (with improved ads/domains):
http://home1.gte.net/res0pj61/squidguard/rm-blacklists.tar.gz
Let me know how it goes!
Rick Matthews
