Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?
Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> > Are there any idiot friendly docs for this sort of thing yet? The last
>
>> If you want a *caching* proxy, then an out-of-the-box Squid install, with
>> _very_ few (if any) tweaks, works great.
>>
>> If you wnat a *filtering* proxy, dansguardian seems to be the way to go,
>> again, very few tweaks necessary.
>
> OK, how about for the person too stupid to appreciate what a "proxy"
> is in the first place? :)
Proxies act as a middle man providing some desired service to the
content, usually caching, though adzapping and blocking other undesired
content is common.
>> > A networking guru I ain't, and I could really do with some kind of
>> > simple LinNanny kind of thing.
>>
>> Amen, brother.
>
> Maybe I should write one. That would be a much less daunting proposition if
> it didn't involve having to become enough of an expert on such matters to
> have the necessary grounding in order to be able to do so. :(
squid and squidgaurd are not hard to use.
> (I hear Bill Gates has a lot of money. I should look him up and see
> if he wants to fund the development of a simple-to-use p0rn filter for
> Linux. :)
It already exists. It's called squidguard.
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