[dundee] Removing a blocked site from an IPCop firewall

[Edmund Huggett]

Might be worth checking what actually happens from the clients perspective
when you try to access youtube, I.e can you even resolve YouTube.com (could
you have 'blocked' it via DNS). Hopefully this will give you a clue as to
where to look!
On 8 Dec 2013 19:45, "malcolm" <malcolm at wxlr.co.uk> wrote:

> I tried that and there's no entry for youtube.com.  I searched for 'you'
> and it found entries containing  'you' but none for 'yout'. Also on my
> Ipcop web front end there is no Content Filter option.
>
> More information I've remembered:  It's set up so that only computers with
> a fixed adress can access youtube.  Will this change where the blockage
> might be?
>
>
> On 08/12/13 18:44, Robert Ladyman wrote:
>
>> Well, you can either comment the line out (containing .youtube.com) by
>> starting the line with a # or delete the line altogther
>>
>> try logging in and using
>>
>> nano  /etc/squid/blacklists
>>
>>  Sorry for the delay, I've been off island.
>>>
>>> I found a file called blacklists, what next please.
>>>
>>> Malcolm.
>>>
>>> On 02/12/13 09:56, Robert Ladyman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Malcolm,
>>>>
>>>> If it was via DansGuardian, you should go into the IPCOP web front-end
>>>> and select Services->Content Filter -> Banned site (domain) list file.
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, it could be in the Squid files:
>>>>
>>>> Log into your firewall as root (ssh -p 222 -l root  address) - that's
>>>> "dash el" not "dash one" and replace "address" with the firewall's
>>>> address (probably 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.254).
>>>>
>>>> Once you've logged in, type
>>>>
>>>> ls /etc/squid
>>>>
>>>> and you'll get a list of files. Is there one called 'blacklists' ?
>>>>
>>>>  Hello again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I added a site, youtube, to my IPCop firewall some years ago.  It was
>>>>> done, IIRC, as root.  I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it
>>>>> and would now like to remove the block.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've googled but to no avail.
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA.
>>>>>
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