Block or allow certain sites debian


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hello,

 

I am using my debian pc as router and i want to block connections from places...a white list would be beneifcial for my purposes

 

 

I want to block websites as well as APIs on websites making calls to external sites like twitter/facebook.... I want to make sure these connections are not even called to boost speed (I am on a very VERY VERY limited connection speed) i am using a cache server which works great but im trying to shave off a few more seconds...

 

so i wont to cut out things that dont cache such as API requests and adverts etc any ideas will be welcome

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  On 04/06/2014 at 10:21, 68k said:

I could be wrong about this, but I presume you'd need to edit the hosts file on your Debian machine. Here's a guide: https://www.weg.ucar.edu/documentation/hostfile-unix.html

I will look into this,

 

I know there is a function in my proxy to sort out the websites... but I cannot seem to get it working...i am using squid

  On 04/06/2014 at 11:24, Shaun N. said:

I also use squid proxy, it's very effective along side Dansguardian

got any tips on setting up the whitelist? I cant seem to get it working

 

this is what I am inputting

 

acl whitelist dstdomain .example.com .google.com .bing.com

http_access allow whitelist

 

do I have to http_access deny all ? and allow 192.168.2.0/24 ? I dont know with this proxy :(

  On 04/06/2014 at 11:38, SPEhosting said:

got any tips on setting up the whitelist? I cant seem to get it working

 

this is what I am inputting

 

acl whitelist dstdomain .example.com .google.com .bing.com

http_access allow whitelist

 

do I have to http_access deny all ? and allow 192.168.2.0/24 ? I dont know with this proxy :(

 

For Squid or Dansguardian?

  On 04/06/2014 at 13:25, Shaun N. said:

For Squid or Dansguardian?

 

For Squid it would be something like this

 

acl localnet srv 192.168.1.0/25

http_access allow all whitelist

http_access deny all

http_port 8080

 

and set up your whitelist with sites or *.gov type sites

 

You can take a look here for some examples

 

http://www.webdnstools.com/articles/squid-proxy-whitelist

  On 05/06/2014 at 09:04, Shaun N. said:

How did you get on with this?

hello, I got it working in the end, it was all about placment (cheated a lil and used webmin)

 

but now I have two problems to overcome... 1 is to use squid to block multimedia (which it seems to be refusing to do) and another is allow https traffic as well as http through the proxy so I can stop the streaming.... im stuck on this one

  On 05/06/2014 at 10:36, SPEhosting said:

hello, I got it working in the end, it was all about placment (cheated a lil and used webmin)

 

but now I have two problems to overcome... 1 is to use squid to block multimedia (which it seems to be refusing to do) and another is allow https traffic as well as http through the proxy so I can stop the streaming.... im stuck on this one

the 443 traffic is mainly issues with the Iptables  right now i believe...

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