RE: [squid-users] ACL Blacklist

Christoph Haas <mailto:email@christoph-haas.de> schreef op zondag 4 mei 2003
16:15:

> Hi, Willem-Jan...
>
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 02:33:37PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
>> I've searched the mail archive for this question and I know this has
>> been asked before, but I can't find an answer to it. I want to block
>> traffic from adult sites and all that stuff.
>
> I guess you mean 'to adult sites' - not 'from'.
>
>> Is there a kind of "standard blacklist" for this?
>
> There are a few projects that collect URLs. In short terms and IMHO:
> forget it. There are thousands of domains registered daily. The job
> of blocking all URLs which fit your category is such a stupid job
> that it's only done in commercial software.
>
> I personally like 'WebWasher' because they have a team of students
> and housewifes which do nothing but surfing all day long categorizing
> URLs. However there are more vendors. If you want to be serious
> about URL filtering you will have to invest money.
>
> If you can't spend a buck and don't want to be that serious you may
> go with 'SquidBlock'. That's an automatically generated list of URLs
> from a web spider. From my experience this works well for 95% of all
> sites but you will have a lot of trouble with the last 5%. You may
> try this at home but if your job as a net admin is to block access to
> illegal content then you won't be happy with this.
>
>> A friend of my who's working at a school is using cyberpatrol and the
>> blacklist was almost complete with 2 days, so I think for cyberpatrol
>> there's a standard blacklist, and I'm searching the same for squid.
>
> How did you get the URL database from CyberPatrol? If other know the
> URL database then who wil buy their software? Companies will do
> anything to protect the URL list.
>
>> I started to type manually add urls in the squid.conf file, but there
>> are millions of possibilities
>
> My predecessor at my job also tried that. Good luck. ;)
>
> Christoph

Thanks a lot, I'm now using the squidblock blacklist and it works fine, but
the dutch part of the list was incomplete, I added some entries and most
sites are blocked for now

-WJ

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