<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Chris</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Feature for feature, reliability, security and "undefeatability" (is that a word?), granularity, service and support, and just about any other criteria (except of course cost) nothing beats Websense. <br>It may be your most expensive option, but you get what you pay for (IMHO). <br><br>In Wood County, all the libraries cooperate and use a single instance of Websense. Each Library (local network) has a small server that runs two small services. I maintain a central server and a database that handles everyone's specific policies and collects traffic data for reporting and troubleshooting. The small local server at each individual library maintains a copy of the web site category database and also handles all the local network packet sniffing, policy checking, filtering, and redirection if necessary. They constantly update any policy changes with the main policy server. Libraries with a technical staff can manage their own small local servers and even their own policy changes if they want. Libraries with limited or no IT Staff simply make a policy change request and I take care of it for them. 99.9% of the year no policy changes are necessary and the system runs rock-solid. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">It may be an option for you to involve other libraries to help offset the cost of the licenses and support. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">It's just another idea in the mix.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">KP</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Whetsel, Shawn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swhetsel@akronlibrary.org" target="_blank">swhetsel@akronlibrary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes if you NAT/PAT your DNS traffic from those networks out different IP's. We do this to get stats on the blocks for WiFi vs Pub vs Staff networks.<br>
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Is it possible to have different blocking configurations with OPLIN's solution? Adult / Children /Staff?<br>
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Tyra L. Ealy<br>
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Warren-Trumbull County Public Library<br>
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> Free + OPLIN = Me Happy<br>
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Here too. The few times OpenDNS has incorrectly blocked something it has been easy to whitelist the URL<br>
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I suppose their community-supported domain tagging system must work pretty well considering the vast number of web sites, but a couple of times I've run across something which was wrongly categorized and my attempts to use their system to request a review has been ineffective.<br>
(the Diesel Sweeties web comic is not pornography, seriously:<br>
<a href="https://domain.opendns.com/dieselsweeties.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://domain.opendns.com/dieselsweeties.com</a>).<br>
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My other beef with OpenDNS is that they don't provide any information about how, why, or when a site was identified as a malware site. A few times someone has requested that a site identified by OpenDNS as malware be unblocked. I wish I had more information to provide the user about why I can't do it.<br>
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Those are pretty minor complaints in the grand scheme of things though.<br>
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Athens County Public Libraries<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="text-align:center"> <b>Kevin Puffer</b><br><b>Systems Administrator</b><br><img src="http://wcdpl.org/sites/default/files/foliage_logo.jpg" width="96" height="50"><br><b>Wood County District Public Library</b><br><b>251 N. Main St. Bowling Green, OH 43402</b><br><b>(419)</b><b> 352-5104 - <a href="mailto:kpuffer@wcdpl.org" target="_blank">kpuffer@wcdpl.org</a></b><br></div><br></div>
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