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Re: Limiting internet access by time

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 at 20:00, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 05 August 2016 11:40:28 Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 05 Aug 2016 at 00:02:40 +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > On a stretch box I have, I want to allow access to the Internet between
> > > the hours of 9am and 9pm and block it between 9pm and 9am. Ideally
> allow
> > > local network access throughout but block Internet access between 9pm
> and
> > > 9am, but I can accept total network blockage in the off times if
> > > necessary.
> >
> > Your ideal is achievable.
> >
> >   ip route del default via <gateway_IP>
> >
> > Plus a cron job.
> >
> > > The machine is used as a desktop, so it is not up all the time. It
> might
> > > be brought up before 9am, in which case it should come up blocked and
> > > unblock at 9am, or it may be brought up after 9am, in which case it
> > > should come up unblocked and block if it is still up at 9pm. Time
> > > precision isn't important.
> >
> > If it came up unblocked before 9am cron could see to it that blocking
> > happens.
> >
> > > An ideal solution would allow dhcp updates, ntp etc to continue but
> block
> > > any normal user access eg web browsing etc.
> >
> > How essential is this? cron could
> >
> >   ip route add default via <gateway_IP>
> >
> > at specific times between 9pm and 9am and then remove the default route.
> > If the machine isn't up all the time it seems unnecessary to me.
>
> Perhaps he wants to stop his children/grandchildren/house guests surfing
> the
> web at 3:00 am.
>
> Lisi
>
> Spot on, Lisi! I recently set up a stretch box for my 12-year-old who's
interested in getting into Android programming, and he quickly developed
the ugly habit of getting up in the middle of the night to watch YouTube
videos of other people playing Wii games... Currently he's on his summer
holiday so it isn't doing much harm, but in a few weeks he'll be back to
school and as a responsible parent I can't let this continue. Simply asking
him to stop doesn't have the desired effect, naturally. My wife is about an
inch away from banning the computer altogether, and I'm trying to find an
acceptable compromise to prevent that...

Mark

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Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 02:10 +0200
  Re: Limiting internet access by time Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 09:30 +0200
    Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 17:40 +0200
  Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 12:50 +0200
    Re: Limiting internet access by time Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 13:10 +0200
      Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 16:10 +0200
        Re: Limiting internet access by time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 18:00 +0200
          Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-05 19:50 +0200
            Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 21:10 +0200
              Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-06 03:40 +0200
            Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-06 07:30 +0200
              Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-07 03:00 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 05:40 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 02:10 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-09 19:30 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-09 21:20 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-10 15:40 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-10 17:00 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-10 18:10 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-10 22:40 +0200
          Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 20:50 +0200
            Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-06 07:30 +0200
      Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 16:30 +0200
        Re: Limiting internet access by time pv29@gatech.edu - 2016-08-08 01:10 +0200
          Re: Limiting internet access by time Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-08-08 09:00 +0200
            Re: Limiting internet access by time pascalv@sdf.org - 2016-08-08 10:30 +0200
              Re: Limiting internet access by time Karol Augustin <karol@augustin.pl> - 2016-08-08 12:00 +0200

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