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Blocking web sites / web filtering with a Fedora server
We have a "spare" Fedora 10 box at work and I'm looking to block certain web sites such as https://www.facebook.com. What software can you reconmend that would run on Fedora and provide a solution to described issue?
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1- you can install tinyproxy/squid and dansguardian, then add www.facebook.com to the block list
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2- try edit /etc/hosts facebook.com 127.0.0.1 and www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1
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2- try edit /etc/hosts facebook.com 127.0.0.1 and www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1
madunix, you pretty much repeated what I had already said.
sorry, i might have overlooked
It is a full-fledged web proxy with access control, cache acceleration and much more. Not easy to set up, but highly powerful.
Here's how you use it for blocking: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/web_blocking_squid