Re: N2H2 Web Proxy/Filter appliance

[mark () NS1 LOONEY COM (Mark)]

> Now : Change your browser settings from "use a proxy" to "Direct
> connection to the internet" and guess what? You've just disabled the
> censoring proxy in three seconds. Oh, great. Amazing what simple
> stupidity can do.

Indeed.  I've seen some of our kids get around some of the things that our
webmasters have put up trying to "protect" certain web pages, and they did
it in a matter of seconds.  It's amusing :)

That is one of several reasons we are using unrouted internal addresses
and requiring all communications with the outside travel through proxy
servers.  You disable web proxy/filter server, you don't surf.  :)

We could also set up silent proxying on the site routers, such that all
traffic except from the proxy servers goes through the proxy server, but
unrouted addressing provides the extra benefit of (virtually) limitless
IP address space internally, so that we need only purchase a single class
C block for our entire district.

mark