[TriLUG] proxy / kiosk question

Michael Tharp gxti at partiallystapled.com
Thu Jun 8 13:46:09 EDT 2006


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I'm sure squid can do that with its ACL system. You may want to give
it a shot, but be prepared for a long session with the manual. Also
you could maybe do something with nameservers (so they can't look up
domains outside of that one), but other than those two there aren't
too many options.

Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm googling this, as any good admin should, but it's an area I figured
> some quick brain at TriLUG would be willing to point me to a quicker,
> cleaner solution.
>
> Situation: I have many public WinXP Kiosk machines, with IE as the only
> thing a walk-up customer can access. I would like this IE to be using a
> Proxy, so that if they try to access anything other than *.mydomain.edu,
> it points them to kiosk.mydomain.edu.
>
> I am familiar with Apache, and have a few linux machines running a few
> Apache servers, but I've not done a Proxy before. Is this the proper
> method to do such a thing? (A proxy, as opposed to something else?) If
> so what proxy would you recommend and can you additionally post a URL
> that explains how to set up such a thing?
>
> Like I said earlier I am also googling this, but even if you point me in
> the approximate general direction, I will... be thankful.
>
> WAB
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