The problem is more widespread than you think.

I am setting up a network at my church. I have come to a holding point 
because there is currently no way to provide access to the general user 
while limiting the possibility that a hormone driven teenager will be caught 
on a porn site.

I think I am ready to reduce the service level to one notch above DSL light 
since there are only three of us with any connection.

John Ferrell    W8CCW
"My Competition is not my enemy"
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Murphy" <luke631@mts.net>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [OT]: ISP-based whitelisting service?


> Hi Shawn,
>
> Monday, June 26, 2006, 10:16:40 AM, you wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:12, Patrick Murphy wrote:
>>> One (remote?) possibility would be to look into becoming our own ISP,
>>> or a "virtual" ISP, but I know little about it.
>
>> i just googled for "Hutterite".. never heard of it before this..
>
> I'm not suprised - our "religious cousins," the Amish, are much more
> well known. We differ from them in that we allow modern technology,
> and have a more communal lifestyle and we are few in number in
> comparison to the Amish.
>
>> yes, you could set up your own community gateway and set up your own 
>> filtering
>> rules on the gateway.. however, this would require some knowledge in
>> networking and firewall configuration..
>
> Are you saying we could have Internet access through an ISP and the
> ISP would route all traffic through our gateway? If so, are there
> ISP's willing to work with us to do that? Another question for the
> list is whether we should do it ourselves, or hire someone to help us.
>
>> it's relatively inexpensive as you can just use any old computer as a
>> gateway.. install a special firewall linux distribution like
>> http://www.smoothwall.org/.. configure it to block everything except 
>> approved
>> sites..
>
>> then, you'd just need to make sure that all community traffic flows 
>> through
>> this gateway..
>
> Is this easy to accomplish? I'm googling [Internet "community
> gateway"] and have a lot of hits; the term appears to be used in
> several contexts.
>
>> cheers..
>
>> with metta,
>> shawn tan.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Patrick Murphy
> James Valley Colony
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