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From: Albany, NY

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Dan's Guardian?

Hello all. I've installed the Dan's Guardian package using yaourt on a couple computers I am going to be setting up in a classroom at our church. Has anyone here used this filter before? Can you tell me how to get it up and running on these two boxes? Neither of them really has the oomph to run Ubuntu Christian Edition, but they run Arch just fine.

Thanks for your help!

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Re: Dan's Guardian?

I've run dansguardian for several years at a youth cybercafé.

It only does web filtering and needs to work with a web proxy. This means you need to install squid, or tinyproxy, or privoxy. I use squid.

When a web browser is run, rather than have a "direct connection to the internet", you change the web browser to use a "manual proxy" (give it the local IP address of the PC running dansguardian e.g. 192.168.0.1, and the port dansguardian listens to e.g. 8080). In the dansguardian configuration file you specify which port squid is listening on, e.g. 3128.

Be aware that even with google safe search switched on, you can still get some dodgy image previews

You could try "public fox" to prevent users bypassing dansguardian
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3911/