Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Are there any idiot friendly docs for this sort of thing yet? The last > >> If you want a *caching* proxy, then an out-of-the-box Squid install, with >> _very_ few (if any) tweaks, works great. >> >> If you wnat a *filtering* proxy, dansguardian seems to be the way to go, >> again, very few tweaks necessary. > > OK, how about for the person too stupid to appreciate what a "proxy" > is in the first place? :)
Proxies act as a middle man providing some desired service to the content, usually caching, though adzapping and blocking other undesired content is common. >> > A networking guru I ain't, and I could really do with some kind of >> > simple LinNanny kind of thing. >> >> Amen, brother. > > Maybe I should write one. That would be a much less daunting proposition if > it didn't involve having to become enough of an expert on such matters to > have the necessary grounding in order to be able to do so. :( squid and squidgaurd are not hard to use. > (I hear Bill Gates has a lot of money. I should look him up and see > if he wants to fund the development of a simple-to-use p0rn filter for > Linux. :) It already exists. It's called squidguard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
