Maybe a bit of specific topic.

 

Has anyone setup a Raspberry pi to act as a proxy before? I'm trying to get SquidGard on a Pi so I can use it to proxy and filter any web traffic for my son. Ideally I just want it to cut off his access at certain times (which it can do).

I've been thorough a few guides on doing it but no joy with my pi. I suspect becasue the guides I've found are a few years old they're not quite right.

 

I did build a SquidGard filtering proxy for a school but it was a long long time ago.

 

DansGuardian would be a possible alternative.

The documentation on the website is pretty basic. Wouldn't you need to direct your DNS through  squidguard ?  I'm using pihole to block ads  and I've had to set up the pihole server as a DNS forwarder on my Router.

 

 

Unless I've misread this, is this of any help...?

Squidward not much use tbh.

 

I found another product on the web called KidSafe.

Again having issues because the guides are just a little out of date but I have made some progress with it getting the MySQL databases setup. Took ages to get the permissions within MySQL sorted after it installed but didn't assign permissions to root to create etc dbs.

 

There eare a few other options out there yet if this doesn't work.

I run a Sophos UTM (free for Home use) - doesn't run on  a PI (pc with two NICs best) and this allows blocking and hours management - I also seem to remember that my TP Link router did this as well when updated to one of the custom firmwares (dd-wrt?)