Popman: :)
Thanks, guys.
The reason we did what we did is that the commercial software that allows you to blacklist sites just wasn’t good enough. I was paying $30 per computer for the software, and the children were still able to get through without even trying.
One day, one of my sons just typed “baseball” in a Google search and you wouldn’t believe what appeared. A lot of web sites just don’t bother to tell the monitoring software anything about their content.
That was the end of that. I installed the Linux firewall and proxy, using Dansguardian. Rather than a blacklist that you have to continually update, Dansguardian has a whitelist that is a list of sites that are allowed.
The only time I have to update that list is if somebody sends a link to one of my children in their email. I get to check it out first, and if I think it’s ok, I’ll put it in the whitelist.
One of my preteen daughters was sending email to a boy I did not want her to contact. Her siblings ratted her out. So I installed Squid on the Linux gateway. Now, all email transactions are copied to my account.
Needless to say, there are no web-based mail servers in the Dansguardian whitelist.
We’ve made our mistakes, and that’s why we tightened it everything up so much.
Oh, and all the Linux software was free. The computer that we installed it on was an old Dell box that my brother-in-law wasn’t using anymore. So our whole gateway-firewall-netproxy-mailserver was free.
This is Netmilsmoms, Husband:
OK, so I replace my Linksys firewall with the Dansguardian Linux firewall. Squid is a web cache package for Apache, I don’t quite understand how installing Squid has anything at all to do with SMTP.
Didn’t you have to register an MX record to enable email on your Dansguardian Linux box or do you have it as a forwarder / SPAM filter only?
Thanks,
You should be proud of his searching skills. I just tried the baseball query (with SafeSearch turned off) and saw nothing unexpected in the first 30 results. Plenty of M-L-B but no M-I-L-F.
Generally, I find it quite rare to run into porn on the internet by mistake and easy to find it deliberately. Also, I use GMail, so I never see spam unless I look in the Spam folder. Even whitehouse.com is gone as a joke to play on people. It used to be a porn site. Now it's some sort of media site.
bump your post for later viewing.