[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Pete Hardie wrote:
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>> Thanks - I'll take a closer look and see if I can wrap my head around it.
>> and to the list - I think that dnsmasq will do what I want, since it
>> allows specification of a DNS server for the DHCP clients, and can be
>> configured to not
>> be the DNS server for the host, leaving it to use the router and ISP
>> servers.
>>
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> A friend of mine with various ages of children has chosen to incrementally
> make internet access harder and harder. The two eldest children have
> developed some serious network hacking skills as a result. His devious goal
> was less about restricting access to online materials and activities and
> more about learning how things worked.
>
> His most recent step was physically unplugging at around 9-10pm
> (time for bed),,.  and his 14 year old boy discovered "pringles can"
> antenna technologies as a result.
>
> The bad news, and why I know.. is he got enough signal to leach from my
> house.. where he got sniffed and monitored. I'm not exactly next door, but
> I am line of sight..


$3 of heavy duty aluminium foil will stop that intrusion :-) Wallpaper the
side of the wall facing the friends house with the foil near the source. Or
put up a trellis for climbing roses that includes some copper screen :-)

Or route kiddies through squid and send reports to dad! Maybe a few "nasty
site" entries get added by mistake....

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