Looking for content filter recommendations for a church
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I was asked in passing (minimal details right now) about web filtering options for my church. Its just a small org with about 15 or so nodes (PC's, printers, wifi) a handful of users, non-domain and no static public IP or anything. There's a lot of people who come in and connect to wifi throughout the week, including kids. Basically they just want to block porn.
The equipment they have now is a Ubuquiti EdgeRouter type thing little Netgear switch. I wasn't given a price range but I'm just seeing what's out there for free/cheap options for now.
I did happen upon this which may be good enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwL6-n0qrU - I'm just not sure how well it works.
Otherwise does anyone have any good suggestions for Church/non-profit type setups? Something that would work with the network equivalent of a home network.
OpenDNS might be the best/easiest option for now: https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/#familyshield
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PiHole is pretty easy to run, too. And you get lots of control on that.
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Free and easy to manage will be PiHole especially when version 5 is released.
My anticipated features is per-client blocking and regex/wildcard support for the whitelist. -
Also deny access to all DNS servers except for PiHole.
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@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.
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@dave247 said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.
A full kit Raspberry Pi on amazon is $60-$80
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@dave247 said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.
Do they have nothing? You can always run it in the cloud. It's ridiculously tiny, runs anywhere.
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@JaredBusch said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@dave247 said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.
A full kit Raspberry Pi on amazon is $60-$80
The 1GB board is plenty.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@dave247 said in Looking for content filter recommendations for a church:
@scottalanmiller looks like I need to install it on something though. I was hoping to not have to purchase any additional hardware. Still an option though.
A full kit Raspberry Pi on amazon is $60-$80
The 1GB board is plenty.
I was thinking about the 3 where htere was not really choice like the 4. Not used to having to specify on a RPi.
