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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Kevin Tunison wrote: > The first question to ask is whether or not they are on the Southwest > Grid For Learning (which is in fact RM in sheeps clothing, look at the > whois link below). If they are, then web-serving is a no-no. The > filter SWGFL puts in does its job well. My opinions about the entire > RM/GridForLearning are long and plenty that I won't go in to here... >> From my run-ins with it, it was at the time a Squid/DansGuardian > transparent proxy. A search on SWGFL squid confirms this. I'm surprised they still exist - 6ish yers ago I was involved in some community broadband projects in Buckfastleigh and they were selling schools 2Mb and 8Mb links at the time (hand in hand with BT who managed the physical network IIRC) and it was extortionately expensive for the schools and they had to sign up for a 3-year contract. I reckoned that as soon as higher speed ADSL was avalable, they'd all jump ship, but maybe it seems not! We ran an information centre piggy-backed off a SWGFL link to the local primary school - talk about firewalled. I couldn't even run my own local DNS servers. I did eventually manage to create a tunnel through their system to the real world, but ... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html