One-site browsing?

[cg360]

Hi,
I'm looking for a simple way to restrict browsing to one website i.e. any part of www.bbc.com, where any attempt to move from that domain would not be allowed. Is this possible? I've seen SSB's but they are more app-based from what I can tell.
Any help appreciated!

[LordGrover]

Are there restrictions to which operating system/browser/isp/router/firewall/etc?

[cg360]

LordGrover said:

Are there restrictions to which operating system/browser/isp/router/firewall/etc?

It's a PC, vista or XP, no particular browser preference, bthomehub router. Thanks!

[mrmr96]

Google 'kiosk mode'. HTH

ETA: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=kiosk+m...

Edited by mrmr96 on Friday 25th February 12:16

[illmonkey]

You could change LMhosts to have other domains to point to 127.0.0.1

It may, however, be a rather long, never ending list.

You could put a deny rule on the firewall, and an allow above that rule for the BBC sites IP address.

[bishbash]

This is untested but might work, add an entry for 212.58.246.94 www.bbc.co.uk in your hosts file. Then set your dns server in your network connection to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) that way the only IP address your pc will know about is the BBC webserver. If you want to allow additional sites then you just need to add them to the host file.

[Ordinary_Chap]

bishbash said:

This is untested but might work, add an entry for 212.58.246.94 www.bbc.co.uk in your hosts file. Then set your dns server in your network connection to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) that way the only IP address your pc will know about is the BBC webserver. If you want to allow additional sites then you just need to add them to the host file.

Good idea!

[Zod]

It may be possible to do this via your router.

[itsnotarace]

Free for home use

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

Uses the BlueCoat database so it's very good. You could also use local policies to restrict IE appearance to remove and lock down IE functionality (address bar etc)

[cg360]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try some of those later.
Cheers!

[//j17]

bishbash said:

This is untested but might work, add an entry for 212.58.246.94 www.bbc.co.uk in your hosts file. Then set your dns server in your network connection to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) that way the only IP address your pc will know about is the BBC webserver.

Shouldn't that be 'the only DOMAIN NAME your pc will know about'?
Go to http://74.125.39.99/ and the Google.com homepage will still come up.
Go to http://74.125.39.100 and you get translate.google.com.
Go to http://74.125.39.100/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... and you get Pistonheads in Serbian (not that useful but means you could get out to an anonymity site by IP and from there out to any site via domain name).

OK, it's going to stop 90% of people - depends how locked-down you want it to be.

[LordGrover]

//j17 said:

Shouldn't that be 'the only DOMAIN NAME your pc will know about'?
Go to http://74.125.39.99/ and the Google.com homepage will still come up.
Go to http://74.125.39.100 and you get translate.google.com.
Go to http://74.125.39.100/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... and you get Pistonheads in Serbian (not that useful but means you could get out to an anonymity site by IP and from there out to any site via domain name).

OK, it's going to stop 90% of people - depends how locked-down you want it to be.

Closer to 99% I'd think... I'd expect not many of us know too many IP addresses off the top of our heads (without internet access).

[Ordinary_Chap]

LordGrover said:

Closer to 99% I'd think... I'd expect not many of us know too many IP addresses off the top of our heads (without internet access).

Very true not to mention they'd have to have a pretty good understanding of DNS to get that, i.e. not your average user.

[mrmr96]

What's wrong with kisok bowers settings, either in IE or as an addon to chrome/firefox?