Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:40:02 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 11/5/05, Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:48:04 -0800
> > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/5/05, gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > > > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Hi,
> > > > > My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web
> > > > >sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about
> > > > >such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox?
> > > > >
> > > > >Thanks,
> > > > >Mark
> > > > >
> > > > It would depend on how your home network is set up.  A squid proxy
> > > > could work for you.  What are you trying to accomplish?
> > > >
> > > Thanks. I'll look into squid. I guess with squid all of that machine's
> > > requests go to this machine and then it forwards stuff on, keeping a
> > > record? Is that the basic idea?
> > >
> > > If so, does that mean that all traffic for the machine in question
> > > actually does through the squid machine? If so that might mean too
> > > much wireless traffic the way we are set up.
> >
> > yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy.
>
> OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's
> never used a proxy. ;-)
>
> I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either
> through reading or use. do all packets for the machine using the proxy
> go through the proxy? Or is it more like a DNS server where just the
> URL's go through the proxy to figure out what to do?
>
> Right now the machine under observation is on one wireless leg. The
> one machine that's on all the time is on anothe wireless leg. Neither
> is directly tied to the cable modem. If the traffic pattern looks like
>
> M_OBSERVE -> router -> M_SQUID -> router -> Internet -> router ->
> M_SQUID -> router -> M_OBSERVE

I use ipcop as my internet gateway/router, so all traffic goes through
it, and thats where I run squid. ipcop does it all for you, and you
might be interested in the copplus addon or the squidguard addon from
http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/

>
> The I created a lot of extra wireless traffic, especially since the
> machine being observed seems to like to watch a lot of gaming videos.
> If it's just addresses, then no big deal. If it's the whole data
> stream then it's not going to work well.
>
> On the other hand I have a MythTV frontend that is not always turned
> on but could be, I suppose, which is on the router, as are a few of my
> audio machines. I'm loath to start putting this stuff on machines in
> my studio....
>
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Or is it just the addresses that are proxied?
> > >
> > > As for purpose, as I said earlier my wife wants to know all web sites
> > > that a certain computer on our network visits over time.
> >
> > trouble with the kids?
>
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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