[K12OSN] internet content filtering

[Henry Hartley]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Will Hatch
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:56 AM
>> 
>> After looking into content filtering a little bit, it seems 
>> to me that it is unlikely that I will have the necessary 
>> knowledge to install iptables, squidguard, and Dan's 
>> Guardian, by the time school starts.  It just seems too 
>> complicated for me at this point.  Is there a reasonably 
>> priced content filtering program that I could purchase and 
>> install via cd to my server that would get me through this 
>> year? I've seen several that either do not give pricing, or 
>> charge per machine.  Technically, I'd only be installing on 
>> ONE machine.  Any direction on this would be appreciated. 
>> Thanks! -Will

I also was a bit overwhelmed by this task and thought it might be
beyond me.  I decided to give it a try and setup a firewall for my
home.  I was rewarded with a surprisingly easy setup.  I found an
old Pentium II computer, installed SmoothWall 2.0 (from
http://www.smoothwall.org/) and then followed the instructions here
http://projects.elmadera.com/sw/dansguardian.htm to get DansGuardian
set up and running.  It really didn't take as long as I expected and
it is working well.  I did have to modify the
/etc/dansguardian/bannedmimetypelist and bannedextensionlist to allow
zip files or my Windows machines could not update their virus
definitions from Symantec but that was a simple change.

-- 
Henry