VMG1312: Parental Controls: Difference between revisions
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* You are also able to block specific URLs or keywords.
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= Under the bonnet =
As your author has been puzzled by the parental controls not working as expected, he delved into the workings.
It uses a combination of ''iptables'' and ''ebtables'' (although strangely not, it appears, ''ip6tables''). A userspace application ''webipqd'' handles URLs and keywords, its configuration is in ''/var/url_list''.
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