[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

[Pete Hardie]

It's basically the time spent - she gets sucked into some games, and some
stories.  I'm not trying to content block in this case.

I'm reluctant to do anything on the laptop, because the school has a pack
of savvy delinq^H^H^H^Hweb surfers who can suggest the easy fixes to the
easy blocks

Pete Hardie
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Better Living Through Bitmaps


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>wrote:

> How tech savvy is she? If there are a few particular time-wasting sites
> you want to block (facebook, twitter) you could potentially just edit
> her C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file and add some entries
> pointing to 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.0 or something like that. You said you
> couldn't install anything--not sure if you can edit a file like that. It's
> easy enough to override if she's savvy but it might be an easy first step
> before going to a network based filter. Of course if she is savvy, there
> are probably countless ways for her to get around all kinds of obstacles
> you may put up. Neighbor's wi-fi?  Cell hotspot? Free VPN?
>
> It sounds like you're less worried about content filtering--i.e. blocking
> any site that contains porn, etc.--and more worried about a few particular
> time-sink sites. If you are interested in content filtering, you might
> check out DansGuardian.org.
>
> Scott
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> *From: *"Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:02:24 PM
> *Subject: *[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?
>
>
> 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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>
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