Re: [squid-users] squid & websense

Squid is capable of this, you need to look at some of the add-in
redirectors like SquidGuard.

In my experience, the blacklists available for Squidguard and it's kin
aren't as good as the commercial services like Websense, which are all
pretty bad to begin with.

To be fair it's a moving target that they can never achieve 100% accuracy
against.

On one hand Squidguard is a "good enough" to let users know they shouldn't
be trying to access porn, and will make it easier to see who is trying to
access the stuff. If a user finds a site that slips through, chances are
they hit 5 that were blocked and the logs will show this.

On the other hand, it's not terribly difficult to find sites not in the
black list and if you are in a setting where users aren't authenticated or
with a very low tolerance, it may not be adequate.

DansGuardian is another project to look at for this, and there is no
reason you can't run both Squid/Squidguard and DansGuardian.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: <alireza@panaisp.net>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: [squid-users] squid & websense

>
> Hi
>
> I should limit the access of our users
> that they can not access any porn &
> x rate,... sites.
>
> does squid has ability to limit the
> access those sites as power as websense
> I know url_regex on squid.
> I should limit their access more than that
>
> do any one have any document or experiment
> in this task
>
>
> Thanx in advance
> ALireza
>
>
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 01 2002 - 10:23:55 MST