Tracking websites visited

Arjen Heidinga dexter at beetjevreemd.nl
Mon Aug 14 22:08:10 UTC 2006


Ashley M. Kirchner schreef:
>   I have several machines on a private internal network that get used to get on
> the internet (through an FC5 box with iptables.)  Is there some way to track
> and log what websites are being loaded on these internal machines and the date
> and time it gets done - and ideally also what the ip is of that internal
> machine (since we have so many.)
>
>   I thought long ago someone had mentioned using squid for this, but that would
> require me actually installing and setting it up.  I'm wondering if there's
> some other way of doing this.
>
>   -- A
>
>   
What you really want is to track the URLs visited. This means you have 
to either examine every (tcp.http) packet and log the requested URL.
Easieest way is to set up a transparent proxy in which squid is a nice 
program  to aid you.

/Arjen




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