[K12OSN] Changing proxy settings

[Richard K. Ingalls]

ssanders at coin.org wrote:

> hi richard and rick, i am in columbia mo...
> 
> i used squid for a couple of years, to (apparently) speed up dialup
> users. i didn't have K12LTSP going at the time, so i manually altered
> the individual browser settings to proxy through it, a moderate hassle.
> i also used it to block sites that were unappropriate by constantly
> editing ACL lists, and redirecting everything that failed to a 'purty
> 404' page. in that situation, i had to run it on a separate machine. an
> old PII with 512 meg of RAM was more than adequate. i have not used
> dan's guardian, but have read that it's better/easier as far as blocking
> sites.

I use squid/dansguardian and love it.  I like that 
I can customize the phrases that are blocked. 
It's a nice app and I use the webmin module to my 
admin work.  Easy.

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Richard K. Ingalls
Director of Information Technology
Glenwood R-8 School District
West Plains, MO

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