web proxy (I think)?

[William Park]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:33:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> here's my situation:
> 
> I have a classroom of 15 pc's networked together via a 24-port
> ethernet hub (well, haven't done the networking yet, but it looks to
> be easy).  No internet in the classroom.
> 
> I want to teach students how to use the internet with their brand new
> machines; also I want to upgrade their systems from Ubuntu warty to
> Ubuntu hoary, using a mirrored repository I've got on a spare IDE hard
> drive, which still has lots of space on it.  
> 
> here's my thought:
> 
> copy a big chunk of internet to my hd, alongside the ubuntu mirror.
> Then install the hd as hdb on a computer that will be used as a router for
> the network (note: is it hard to set up a router?).  Then use some
> kind of system to redirect calls to internet sites to the files that
> have been stored on this hd.  
> 
> is this called web proxying?  Or caching or redirecting or something?
> anyway, that's what I want to do.  Also I would like to fool the local
> machines into thinking that my ubuntu repository is in fact the one
> that's pointed to in their apt-get ocnfiguration files.  
> 
> THe idea is to change almost nothing on the client machines, and do
> all the work on the router.  So I guess I would need:
> 
> *DNS -- any suggestions for something light?
> *DHCP -- that should be easy I reckon.  Would be nice if folks could
> talk to each other's machines using the locally-defined client
> names.  
> *Webcrawling Proxy thaingamajig.  I've seen the name "Squid" tossed
> around.  Is that the right tool for the job?  
> 
> so, any ideas or solutions?  

If I read it right, it's just matter of configuring your local webserver
to respond to some other domain.

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