Re: [squid-users] banner ads (again?)

Try squidGuard, at www.squidguard.org. I am using
squidGuard to redirect a list of sites that contain
banner ads and porn to a company logo on an internal
http server.
 
--- Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Mike Hoskins wrote:
>
> > But I'm wondering if I can simply maintain a local
> hosts table like the
> > one maintained/posted here:
> > http://ssmedia.com/Utilities/hosts/
> > And have Squid essentially 'strip' banner ads from
> office LAN surfers'
> > browsing. Do I need to do anything to Squid, or
> will this work by simply
> > keeping /etc/hosts up to date on my cache server?
>
> OK, so apparently something does need to be done to
> Squid..
>
> Searching the Squid archives doesn't turn up any
> examples of what I'm
> trying to do, surprisingly. Using the
> squid-cache.org mailing list search
> page, I only find these relevant hits containing
> useful information:
>
> JunkBuster reference, not what I want (more
> overhead):
>
http://list.cineca.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108&L=squid&P=R5653
>
> Seems most relevant ('redirector_access?'):
>
http://list.cineca.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005&L=squid&P=R28482
>
> With the host list from ssmedia in /etc/hosts on my
> Squid server, and
> Squid restarted, banner ads are still served to
> clients.
>
> A specific example: Going to www.freshmeat.net
> serves the banner from
> fmads.osdn.com, although it is pointing to 127.0.0.1
> in /etc/hosts on the
> caching server. Browser cache has been cleared.
>
> What do I need to add to my squid configuration? I
> do not understand
> 'redirector_access' if that is the key, and
> searching squid-cache.org for
> that term returns 0 results.
>
> My clients are configured via proxy.pac. My
> proxy.pac defines
> 127.0.0.0/24 as a local network. Since it is local,
> it should be served
> via direct connect. Caching server should do hosts
> table lookup, and find
> that foo.ads.com is mapped to 127.0.0.1 in
> /etc/hosts, and return nothing
> for the ad graphic... Or so I thought. Does anyone
> do this, or can
> anyone offer config snippet/manual reference for
> doing something similar.
> (Either returning nothing for ads, or mapping ad
> URLs to a 'banner
> removed' type graphic, as referenced in mailing list
> archives... But
> again not exemplified.)
>
> Later,
> -Mike
>
> --
> "Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not
> wisdom, Wisdom is not
> truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not Love,
> Love is not music
> and Music is THE BEST." --Frank Zappa
>

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Received on Tue Aug 13 2002 - 18:09:25 MDT