[K12OSN] Re: Dan's Guardian

[John Baillie <jbaillie stmarys-school org>]

> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:30:52 -0500
> From: Eric Feldhusen <efeldhusen chartermi net>
> To: k12osn redhat com
> Subject: [K12OSN] Dan's Guardian
> Reply-To: k12osn redhat com
> 
> Just curious, does anyone here on the list use Dan's Guardian for 
> filtering?  If you do, or have in the past, I'm interested in
we have been using dg for over 2 years now.
> -how big is your pipe is to the internet?

1.5 mb

> -how many clients you have going through the filter?

We have 200 nodes and I'd guess we have had 150 concurrent users at one
time.

> -are you using DG to just block url's or are you using the content 
> filtering of DG?
Both
> -what is your DG server spec's for your setup?
As per David Trask's suggestion we are using the unsupported developer 
version of ESmith with the plug-in from dungog. It has a nice web 
interface for editing the denied and exception list.

Our box is a PIII 650 256 MB Ram and one 10 GB IDE drive. 
> -what's your general opinion of DG?

It works well for us PK - 8. We have had some inappropriate images via
google image search. Not much that can be done about that. I am
interested in Eric's latest project that will set google to use strict
filtering. 

I set dg up to be as strict as possible and add exceptions as requested
by teachers. We had one interesting failure a couple of months back. One
of the students pulled up some Marilyn Manson lyrics from
songlyrics.com. The funny part of this is that he printed them to the
printer in the office and the principal found them. Anyhow I added
songlyrics.com to the denied list and it still came through. Still need
to look into this.

Regards,
John