firewall url filter

[Mustafa K]

Try "smoothwall"  ...> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:46:03 -0600> From: bruno at wolff.to> To: ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> CC: fedora-list at redhat.com> Subject: Re: firewall url filter> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 00:08:28 +1030,> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:38 +0100, roland wrote:> > > The client wants to prevent users to connect to sex sites.> > >> > > Can I use the fedora-box as a firewall, filtering several url's or > > > filtering several keywords?> > > > You can do that sort of thing. A simplistic overview of how is:> > > > Use the firewall to block direct the browsers directly connecting to any> > website (i.e. all outgoing connections to port 80). That'll stop nearly> > all web browsing, other than sites on other unusual ports. It's not a> > 100% catchall, but probably 99%.> > That doesn't catch https connections. Of course the firewall wouldn't> be able to check URLs in that case anyways.> > Depending on the requirements it may be best to block all direct access> to the outside from the clients machines and only allow access through> a proxy.> > If there is a know set of web pages they should have access to then they> can use a whitelist to only allow connections to those web sites. If not,> trying to block undesirable sites isn't an easy problem to solve in> general.> > -- > fedora-list mailing list> fedora-list at redhat.com> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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