OT: Squid or iptables or something else?

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Thu Dec 23 23:58:32 UTC 2004


On 11:35 23 Dec 2004, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at rogers.com> wrote:
| I generally don't start OT threads in mailing lists, but this is such a
| high traffic list that it's perhaps the best place to ask this question.
| 
| I have a client that wants to restrict access to the Internet to only
| one website for every employee, except two people: these two should not
| be restricted at all.
| 
| I was at first considering using iptables, but after doing some
| searching on the net, I discovered that Squid could be used.  
| 
| Which approach would be better?

Squid. Much easier to configure and maintain.
Just set up iptables enough so that everyone must use the squid to get out.
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