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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:06:04
Message-Id: 200901092105.21568.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access by Grant
1 On Friday 09 January 2009 20:40:33 Grant wrote:
2 > > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with
3 > > exceptions for the domains you need.
4 >
5 > Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges?
6
7 If you wget your packages using http, then yes. You could then:
8
9 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as
10 some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources
11
12 or
13
14 2. wget using ftp
15
16 or
17
18 3. set up a proxy
19
20 The easiest is #2 by far
21
22 --
23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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