<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I was not savvy to that fact. I may revisit this, but for now, this will do - I just need to be able to block the big timewaster sites, not content so much.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You actually do this proxy-squid setup on your firewall PC/router so<br>
port 80 traffic get redirected trough squid. So no changes on the PCs<br>
required. Personally have used squid for cache webpages/images and<br>
limiting downloads size to 1 MB. This was back in modem/ISDN times :)<br>
Have read squid could do much more.<br>
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On 3/8/13, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I needed something that would not require anything configured differently<br>
> on the laptop, since it has to work with the school wifi, and I've found it<br>
> finicky with those things. Also, if there are other issues, their SOP is a<br>
> wipe and reinstall, which would erase the proxying.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Pete Hardie<br>
> --------<br>
> Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-setup-transparent-proxy-squid-howto.html" target="_blank">www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-setup-transparent-proxy-squid-howto.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> On 3/6/13, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > A followup, for those interested in the results<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I think that I have found a working configuration. I currently have<br>
>> dhcpd<br>
>> > running, supplying a few fixed IPs for my DVRs, and pointing them at my<br>
>> > WIRNS server for replacement guide data, and I was able to set up<br>
>> > another<br>
>> > MAC-specific stanza to point<br>
>> > my Nook to use my desktop as its DNS, which is handled by dnsmasq. I<br>
>> > set<br>
>> > up dnsmasq to map <a href="http://reddit.com" target="_blank">reddit.com</a> to 127.0.0.1 and it appears to do what I<br>
>> want<br>
>> > - fail to load that site.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I could use dnsmasq to supply the DHCP, and may switch to that once I<br>
>> feel<br>
>> > that everything else is working totally to my satisfaction<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks again to all for the suggestions and war stories about blocking<br>
>> your<br>
>> > kids' access!<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Pete Hardie<br>
>> > --------<br>
>> > Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <<br>
>> > <a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Mike Harrison <<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> >On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Pete Hardie wrote:<br>
>> >> >> Thanks - I'll take a closer look and see if I can wrap my head<br>
>> >> >> around<br>
>> >> >it.<br>
>> >> >> and to the list - I think that dnsmasq will do what I want, since<br>
>> >> >> it<br>
>> >> >allows specification of a DNS server for the DHCP clients, and can be<br>
>> >> >configured to not<br>
>> >> >> be the DNS server for the host, leaving it to use the router and<br>
>> >> >> ISP<br>
>> >> >servers.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >A friend of mine with various ages of children has chosen to<br>
>> >> >incrementally<br>
>> >> >make internet access harder and harder. The two eldest children have<br>
>> >> >developed some serious network hacking skills as a result. His<br>
>> >> > devious<br>
>> >> >goal was less about restricting access to online materials and<br>
>> >> >activities<br>
>> >> >and more about learning how things worked.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >His most recent step was physically unplugging at around 9-10pm<br>
>> >> >(time for bed),,. and his 14 year old boy discovered "pringles can"<br>
>> >> >antenna technologies as a result.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >The bad news, and why I know.. is he got enough signal to leach from<br>
>> >> > my<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >house.. where he got sniffed and monitored. I'm not exactly next<br>
>> >> > door,<br>
>> >> >but<br>
>> >> >I am line of sight..<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> No one leaches my wifi since it's encrypted. They could sniff it, but<br>
>> >> they'd get gibberish.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Sincerely,<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Ron<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> --<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9<br>
>> >> Mail.<br>
>> >> Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want<br>
>> >> to<br>
>> >> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate<br>
>> >> energy<br>
>> >> mailing lists and such. I don't always see new email messages very<br>
>> >> quickly.)<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Ron Frazier<br>
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