Re: [K12OSN] Filters

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Dan McMenamin wrote:

>Hi,
>The network in our school is a peer to peer Ethernet of Windows systems
>connected via a mirowve router to a computer running Linux and serving
>as a gateway.  Does anyone know of a Linux porn-filter application we
>can load into the gateway and keep the kiddies outta the seedier side of
>the Internet?
>
>Dan Mc

We're running squidGuard:

	http://www.squidguard.org
	http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us

I have an RPM availble for Red Hat 7.2 which is mostly pre-configured and
syncs itself to my black lists every night:

	ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/squidGuard/

Since you have a Linux box at a choke-point, you may want to set it up as
a transparent cache/filter:

	http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html
	http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html#ss17.3
	http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html#ss17.4


Another free filter for Linux is Dan's Guardian:

	http://www.dansguardian.org

-Eric