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[Tom Tumelty]

Thank You Ralph and Chris.

I suggested Squid_Cache and/or ipfire.org, smoothwall, or endian .

Is running multiple proxies ok ? i am thinking if different proxies have
somewhat different capabilities.

I am still looking for information on this. is useful knowledge.

This is interesting.   I went to the Honest Networking and Security
conference in plano last friday. It was fascinating. i think i am becoming
very interested in I.T. Security.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Ralph Green <sirable at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>   The first can be done with aptables rules, or maybe DNS entries.
> This stops casual users, but not anyone determined.  You can get
> around it with VPNs or proxy sites, or knowing the IP addresses.
> There are products such as Dan's Guardian that make some of this
> easier to maintain, but they still stop mostly casual attempts.  I
> think the last part of your request is not practical without a lot of
> work.  You could setup a transparent proxy on your network egress, but
> you'd have to keep up with the urls you want to exclude and tht would
> be a lot of work.  You might have better luck, if there were a small
> set of youtube videos you wanted to allow and you could exclude the
> rest.  Then, your proxy would not be too hard to maintain.
>   This is the way I see it, at least.  I have setup firewalls.  I am
> working on one now.  But, I have not really tried to make things
> inaccessible, except for kids.  That is why I mentioned Dan's
> Guardian.
> Good luck,
> Ralph
>
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