On Thursday 06 December 2007 00:29:30 Adrian Chadd wrote: > I've been trialing a set of test commercial services locally, including > proxy site filtering. I've written a series of external ACL helper plugins > to do things like phishtank/safebrowse filtering, match against some > malware RBL lists and these proxy lists. > > Paying clients can download the proxy site lists and also submit new proxy > site lists and help correct errors. > > I wasn't planning on going live with this until the appliance was built > (early next year) but I'm happy to break out just this particular module > and offer it at a discounted rate per-server. > > Its commercial because someone has to keep the lists updated and write new > modules. As a server admin (or an appliance buyer!) you only have to care > when the automated updates stop. Other than that things will just "keep > working." > > If you're interested in this then please let me know and I'll pass on some > per-server and site pricing. > > Thanks! > Thanks , I'll bear this in mind. > > > > Adrian > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007, ian j hart wrote: > > Hello. > > > > [sorry, slightly off topic] > > > > I'm the ICT technician of a school. I have squid running to make the most > > of our bandwidth. Our ISP provides some content blocking but this is > > proving ineffective against the proliferation of proxy sites. > > > > I've started to monitor and block sites with squid ACLs. This is also not > > so effective as there are 1200 users looking for new sites and only 1 > > user trying to block them. > > > > Since there is no punishment for hitting any DENY ACL there's no reason > > for them to stop. > > > > What I need is to apply some back pressure, i.e. automatically block > > persistant offenders. > > > > Does anyone have anything like this? > > > > N.B. This has to be user based. Host/IP based will not work due to the > > hot seating. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > ian j hart -- ian j hart
