> First question - what are you aiming / hoping to achieve by implementing
> Squid?
1. Some ad blocking via an MVPS hosts file. I'm not trying for a perfect
solution, some ad blocking is better than none.
2. Parental control abilities. I like that squid can serve a local webpage that
can say, "
Hi all,
My background's in networking, I'm very new to unix/linux and server
administration, I don't know a whole lot about security beyond ACLs and
setting up crypto for VPNs. I'm setting up a box at home with CentOS and
squid, among other features (I want this box to be a syslog server, etc).