Restricting browsers to only listed websites

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 10 May 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 10.05.2013 18:03, schrieb Tim:
>> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 16:48 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> dns is not needed for networking on the technical level
>>> enter the domains you need and want to allow to access in /etc/hosts
>>
>> Then, later on, when you find that the site isn't accessible anymore,
>> because the service changed where they host their site, change the IPs
>> you list in your hosts file.  Worse, find that you have to keep doing
>> this quite often, because the site spreads itself across different IPs

I haven't used this and don't know how well it works:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-whitelist/

> nobody said it is a good solution and i personally would not do it
>
> but if the OP does not want a appliance between the machine
> and the not by him controlled router there not much left

Could the appliance be something running in a virtual machine?

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