Restrict access to Internet

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Sat June 16 2007 6:05 pm, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Amit Patel wrote:
> > Folks,
> >    I was wondering if it was possible to limit users access to only
> > selected list of sites on the internet and block all the rest. Lets say
> > for example I want my users to access only ubuntu.com and all pages
> > underneath ubuntu.combut users cannot access anything else such as
> > yahoo.com or amazon.com, etc.
> >    Is something like this possible in ubuntu ?
> >    I am aware of the hosts file and adding entries to it, but it isnt
> > exactly flexible.
>
> I think you want a proxy server which can limit the access. Have a look at
> squid or wwwoffle. Both are available from the repositories.
>
>
> Nils

nils >> ubuntu comes with its own proxy server progra right? cause you click 
system, point to administrator and you see "network proxy" or is that 
something different? (ive never worked with setting up proxies and i know 
very little just FYI)

--cj