[GLLUG] content filtering

Michael George george at idealso.com
Mon Mar 31 14:16:25 EDT 2008


It's time I get more serious about content filtering at home, now that my
kids are able to get online.

I know there is the dansguardian/squid proxy filter, but I don't want to
jump immediately to an approach that requires another computer.  I use
LTSP for myself and for the kids, so we're all on the same system
(therefore I can't just use mine as the proxy server).

I've heard of OpenDNS for DNS-level filtering, but I'm not sure if that
will have some loopholes that I hadn't though of...

I should have thought ahead more when I got my router.  I put in a Linksys
WRT54GL running dd-wrt just recently.  I'm happy with it so far, and it
will facilitate a transparent proxy, but it doesn't implement one.  Since
I only use it for basic router and firewall tasks, it would be nice to
have a content filtering proxy built into it.

Anyone here have opinions/advice?  Thanks!

-Michael George


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