Re: Blocking access except through proxy

At 03:23 20.11.99 -0000, Jason Thompson wrote:
><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am just wondering if anyone has implimented a
>system where port 80 (ie WWW) is blocked to all clients, so they are forced to
>use the proxy server. Without using any type of transparent proxy?</FONT></DIV>
><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All of the clients see the server as the default
>router as well as the proxy. What I want to do is use the standard firewalling
>code in Linux to block access to the WWW directly, so all clients must use the
>proxy server.</FONT></DIV>

We're doing precisely that here, and it's working very well.

PS: It would much improve the readability of your messages if you'd
omit those HTML tags.

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