Re: question for you firewall junki.... i mean gurus out there ;)

From: Matthew Schumacher <schu@schu.net>
Date: Tue Jun 08 2004 - 10:42:48 AKDT

kurtbrendgard@icqmail.com wrote:
> i started thinking yesterday, and im not sure where to
> even start reading, so a pointer in the right direction
> if somebody could help me? can any of the firewalls
> anybody on the list have worked with filter streams in
> such a way that it can look for certain words in the
> stream? what im wanting is one that i can set up a list
> of words (ie; porn, tits, neo nazi, marilyn mansion,
> etc etc etc) that it checks incoming web pages for. if
> the web page contains said words, it doesnt get thru.
> this has to be done at the firewall because the kids
> will be working on windoze boxen. yes, i know about
> setting up things like net nanny and the filters built
> into windoze, but im wanting something extra. im
> assuming some of the users are smart and will try and
> get around the filters on the box itself, not to
> mention the fact that not all such sites set specs to
> help the filters and such filters dont get everything
> anyways.
>
> any idea? any of the firewalls anybody has worked with
> do such kind of filtering? this needs to be non
> comercial as well. thanks for any pointers in advance
>
> kurt

Kurt,

Go to http://dansguardian.org. There is a proxy server there that will
filter web content. Once you get that installed somewhere use port
redirection to redirect port 80 though it and your good to go.

schu
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