DansGuardian
| DansGuardian | |
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| File:Dansguardian.png | |
| Original author | Daniel Barron |
| Developer | Aecio F. Neto |
| Stable release | 2.10.1.1
/ June 2009 |
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| Written in | C++ |
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| Operating system | Unix-like (although E2Guardian can be installed and run natively on Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Type | Content-control software |
| License | GPLv2 or proprietary license |
| Website | dansguardian |
| As of | December 2016 |
DansGuardian, written by SmoothWall Ltd and others, is content-control software: software designed to control which websites users can access. It also includes virus filtering and usage monitoring features. DansGuardian must be installed on a Unix or Linux computer, such as a server computer; its filtering extends to all computers in an organization, including Windows and Macintosh computers. DansGuardian is used by schools, businesses, value-added Internet service providers, and others.[4]
As of now, DansGuardian is no longer maintained. Its successor is named "e2guardian".
Technical details
[edit | edit source]DansGuardian is distributed under the GPLv2 free software license, and written using the C++ programming language. It primarily runs in Linux and other Unixes. It is entirely command line and web-based, and meant to be used in conjunction with a web proxy such as Squid.
Graphical configuration tools
[edit | edit source]The Ubuntu Christian Edition Linux distribution includes a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for configuring DansGuardian. The tool does not work as well as the configuration tools included with SmoothWall Guardian, and other web filters.[citation needed]
Zentyal has the option to use Dansguardian as a proxy server with a web interface.
There is a graphical user interface available for Ubuntu, called WebContentControl, which was designed to install and configure DansGuardian, FireHOL and Tinyproxy easily.[5] WebContentControl is no longer maintained.
Blocklist Sources
[edit | edit source]The url filtering capabilities of DansGuardian depend largely on the Blocklists, several options are available. Gratis lists can be found at Shallalist.de,[6] Université Toulouse 1 Capitole [7] and commercial lists could be found at Squidblacklist.org.[8]
Legal details
[edit | edit source]In the United States, DansGuardian satisfies the requirements of Children's Internet Protection Act.
Proprietary versions
[edit | edit source]Two proprietary versions of DansGuardian exist: as part of SmoothWall Limited Firewalls and as stand-alone product Smoothwall SWG.[9]
Forks
[edit | edit source]There exists a fork of Dansguardian Project called MinD.[10] Its name is a recursive acronym for "MinD is not Dansguardian". The "Toy" version of MinD is a fork of DansGuardian version 2.10.1.1 with some improvements. MinD development began in July 2010,[11] but stalled in December 2011.[12]
A fork of Dansguardian with many improvements and bug fixes, e2Guardian[13] is a web content filtering proxy that works in conjunction with another caching proxy such as Squid or Oops. This project was initiated by Frédéric Bourgeois[14] and E2bn.[15]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ WebContentControl website
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Blacklists UT1, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Smoothwall Limited
- ^ MinD Project
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ E2Guardian website
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ E2bn website