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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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