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#1 2017-08-31 22:44:04
- mkkot
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I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
Hello,
I have just set up a strongswan VPN on Linux for my Blackberry device. Then I downloaded https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and figured out that this will not actually work as I expected. Seems that strongswan is not using /etc/hosts at all.
So I have a VPN and now I need to tell my Linux to block certain sites. I read that using iptables is not generally a good idea for this. Any other recommendations?
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#2 2017-08-31 23:14:35
- fukawi2
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Re: I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
strongswan is the VPN application -- I'm not sure what exactly you're expecting it to use /etc/hosts for? To be clear, you want to block sites on your Blackberry, via the VPN?
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#3 2017-09-01 05:53:49
- brebs
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Re: I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
Seems that strongswan is not using /etc/hosts at all.
I expect you're wanting to "push" DNS, so that your BlackBerry uses your VPN server as a DNS server also.
I need to tell my Linux to block certain sites.
Too vague. This can be related to both DNS lookups, and iptables firewalling.
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#4 2017-09-01 15:41:16
- mkkot
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Re: I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
My main objective is to block adverts. Since I can't do it on my Blackberry and the only way to use "proxy" there is actually using VPN with IKEv2, I set up a VPN with this (after 3 days of fighting). So now I have all my traffic from Blackberry on Linux and the only thing I need is some filtering mechanism.
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#5 2017-09-01 16:06:16
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Re: I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
Populating /etc/hosts will only take effect on the BlackBerry, if both:
* The Blackberry is using the Linux VPN server as its DNS server
* The Linux VPN server is configured as a DNS server, to answer DNS requests from the Blackberry
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#6 2017-09-01 16:07:31
- mkkot
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Re: I have a VPN, now I need site filtering
Thanks a lot. That will be the easiest way I guess? 
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