DansGuardian: Open Source web content filter
March 2, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.
DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.
If you are running Microsoft Windows then this software is not for you; it is for running on servers. Of course you can run it on a server and filter Windows clients through it but it will not run on Windows itself.
DansGuardian is a true web content filter.
Website: http://dansguardian.org
About christian
From operations to development. From DBA to project manager, now a manager in an IT department, my passion is still for technology and my focus is on open source.
