About:
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
This release fixes a long standing startup bug that caused it to reprocess files more often than needed. This means that it now starts up several times more quickly. Many new content filtering phrase lists are included. The IPC buffers were increased to resolve problems with long log lines and URLs.

Author:
Daniel Barron <daniel __at__ jadeb __dot__ com> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.60/10.00 (35 votes)

Homepage:
http://dansguardian.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://dansguardian.org/?page=download
Changelog:
http://dansguardian.org/?page=history
RPM package:
http://dansguardian.org/?page=download
OS X package:
http://dansguardian.org/?page=download
Purchase:
http://dansguardian.org/?page=pricing
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=131757&atid=722098
Mailing list archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dansguardian
Mirror site:
http://mirror.dansguardian.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), MacOS X, No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: BSD/OS, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris, Unix
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Internet, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Security, System :: Monitoring, System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Unstable Public beta test.	2.9.8.0	25-Sep-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stable Production server-ready.	2.8.0.6	14-Aug-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.8.0.6	Major bugfixes	14-Aug-2005 08:11
2.8.0.4	Major bugfixes	20-Feb-2005 16:23
2.8.0.1	Minor security fixes	28-Jul-2004 23:22
2.8.0-0	Major feature enhancements	21-Jul-2004 21:18
2.6.1-13	Minor security fixes	14-Apr-2004 23:57
2.6.1-9	Minor security fixes	04-Dec-2003 19:26
2.6.1-8	Minor bugfixes	04-Dec-2003 03:34
2.6.1-6	Minor bugfixes	20-Nov-2003 07:00
2.6.1-5	Minor security fixes	10-Sep-2003 18:12
2.6.1-4	Minor bugfixes	31-Aug-2003 20:46

 Comments

[»] The best I've seen
by Pedro Fortuny Ayuso - Jan 19th 2003 01:36:21

Please do purchase it. It is a pity to notice that it has been
downloaded lots of times, it is such a good product and it has
been paid so little.

It is ASTOUNDING!

Forget about the rest.

--
Pedro Fortuny Ayuso Colegio Mayor Peņafiel Universidad de Valladolid

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[»] The best
by Andrew Ziem - Jun 15th 2002 01:17:51

Dansguardian's whole-filter approach is much better than just using blacklists of URLs. It installed great at work on Mandrake.

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[»] Great Product!!!!
by cxel91a - Mar 1st 2002 01:17:39

I've been looking for a while to find something that could provide internet filtering for my kids. I've finally found it. This product works right out of the box. Only one line to update in the config file. Alot more managable than squidGuard banlist files. Novell's Border Manager will cost a fortune and still require you to puchase a data base for content filtering, but no need here. All dynamic.

Great Project

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