General Questions

How using m0n0wall can I block all website traffic except for a few sites. For example if I wanted to only allow people on the network to access the following url’s  www.google.com and www.toronto.ca (example only) how can I setup rules to do this.

You need a firewall with URL filtering. m0n0wall can only handle IP addresses.

Because services like Google are hosted on server farms and the IP addresses of those servers are due to change,
it won't help you to allow only the IP addresses of Google that YOU know.

Another point is that there are servers that are hosting more than one single site. Because normally all the hosted sites are reachable through one IP address, simple IP filtering won't help you, you need URL filtering.

Try "untangle". You can find it via the http://m0n0.ch/wall/ page, look for the animated .gif at the right side.

What I did was set up my own proxy server.  It is nice, because I can redirect junk like .adserver.com to a simple html file with a dark blue background.  This makes pages load very quick, since it is getting all the "ads" from my local file and not from the internet.

Also, it's much more visually appealing to have your ads as simple dark blue boxes.  And, having a seperate proxy server gives you alot more control over the process.

You can just tell firefox/ie to use your local proxy server.  And, if it ever gives you problems, you can always bypass your proxy server in the browser connection settings.

I use OpenDNS http://www.opendns.com/ very, very easy...

ther are very qualified solution content filter's.
We have used Spinguard, a solution open based with BL and WL updating
See here http://www.globsit.com

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