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Title: Limiting access to Facebook/Youtube in time periods
Post by: johnt on August 16, 2015, 12:26:50 PM

Comrades,
I need to limit access to facebook/youtube in certain times during week days, and deny access for the rest of the times.
Example - access allowed during 12 midday to 2 pm daily, denied for the rest of day.

Currently using SME Server v9 and the built-in Squid proxy.
Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Limiting access to Facebook/Youtube in time periods
Post by: janet on August 17, 2015, 04:18:05 PM

johnt

You can create a domain in server manager Domain panel, eg facebook.com which resolves using the local DNS option (rather than Internet DNS servers) & points at your servers main (local) web site, so if users try to access facebook.com they get your main website.
You can create a cron job to issue a db command that will configure the "redirected" domain(s), & schedule that for 2pm.
You can create another cron job to issue another db command that deletes the redirected domain(s), & schedule that for 12 midday.

To get the appropriate command, create a domain in the Domains panel in server mananger, & then review the messages log file.

I do something similar in Dansguardian & it works fine.

Title: Re: Limiting access to Facebook/Youtube in time periods
Post by: Stefano on August 17, 2015, 04:22:31 PM

take a look at this

http://wiki.contribs.org/WebFiltering

Title: Re: Limiting access to Facebook/Youtube in time periods
Post by: johnt on August 20, 2015, 10:08:36 AM

Thanks comrades.
Trying the mentioned solutions this weekend and will come back with results.

Cheers
John.