[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 14:13:09 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> After another round of disagreements concerning homework, I've determined
> that my daughter can't resist the lure of time-wasting Internet sites.  The
> wrinkle is that she has a school-issued laptop, so I can't install anything
> on it to block access to the time-sinks.  So here's what I think I can do,
> and I need to know if it's possible:
>
> I already have a DHCP server on my desktop, providing fixed IPs and a
> different DNS server for my ReplayTV boxen.  I'd like to target her
> laptop's DNS to one running on my desktop, without using that one as my
> desktop's DNS (I can use the router)
>
> I also need a good tutorial on DNS servers - I have dnsmasq, which seems
> like it might work for my purposes - have the sites I need to block be
> mapped to 127.0.0.1 for her laptop, while letting the rest to resolve
> normally
>
> So is this feasible?  If not, is there a good alternative?
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Pete Hardie
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Are you wanting to block site with DNS?  You might be better setting up
squid.

http://milky.manishsinha.net/2009/06/06/speeding-up-internet-surfing-squid-bind/

This is what I think you are looking for...

http://qmail.jms1.net/djbdns/bind-blocking.shtml

http://ct-bond.blogspot.com/2010/03/blocking-malicious-websites-with-dns.html

http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/dns-advert.html


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