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Blocking XXX sites

Is there a downloadable listing of xxx and adult sites I can add to my router to protect children from porn sites?
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You could have a look at the list provided with squidguard:

http://www.squidguard.org/blacklist/

and see if this helps.

In reality, a router is not the place to be blocking this. There are a couple of reasons:

1. The porn blacklist from squidguard has over 100k entries in it. This is WAY to big to use as an ACL on a router
2. The IP address of websites are subject to change (that's why we have DNS), so you need to work out a way of keeping your ACL up2date
3. The number of porn sites grows daily, so you would need to be constantly adding new entries in an effort to keep up.
4. This simply isn't what most routers are made to do.

I'm not sure what type of router you have (you didn't say), but you're best bet is to use an HTTP proxy server that has the ability to filter and log requests. Then setup each PC on your network to use the proxy server instead of connecting to the Internet directly. There are ways around this (as with most security restrictions), so parental guidance is still required to make sure the kiddies aren't just bypassing the filtering.