Re: FN-FORUM: any ideas??

date posted 10th September 2007 14:56

pam wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a client ( a garage) who would like to set up a computer to allow
> their customers to be able to use 1 website to tax their car while they in
> the garage, does any one know how I could set this up for them so that
> customers could only access the 1 web site and not be able to wander off to
> other sites???? Hope this makes sense...

Should the excellent suggestion of setting up a browser in kiosk mode
fail here is an alternate solution.

Setup a linux box. do ping "www.nameofsite.com". Take the ip address and
put it in /etc/hosts

Then delete everything in /etc/resolv.conf

The computer will only then be able to reslove the required domain. All
other websites will fail.

You may have to add a few other websites if the one in question requires
them to work. (But that's unlikely).

Regards
Richard

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