This weekend, BU is hosting its first college level Model United Nations conference. In the hope of increasing the immersiveness of the simulation, we had the idea of forcing delegates to connect to the internet through our own server. If they tried to go to certain websites like BBC or the Boston Globe, we would intercept those DNS requests and show them our versions of those webpages with news articles relevant to the conference.

I've been reading tutorials on how to do this and I have a general idea how it might work, but reading and doing are very different things. Has anyone here set up an intranet before? Do you have any advice on how to allow people to connect to the internet through a server, but "replace" certain pages?

It wouldn't be too hard if you used a caching server and a system similar to websense. At that point you can redirect calls to specific websites to a page you manage with little or no difficulty.

I don't know how to do this without setting up a domain though. That'd be the trick. Because they're using "non-asset" computers (eg- their own computers). I'm sure it's doable, but never something I've had to do outside of an enterprise environment where that variable was controlled.

Bloody simple. Youll need the following:

• bind9
• apache
• dhcpd

1. Configure bind as normal, but also add entries for [url]www.bbc.com[/url], globe.com, etc, which all point to the apache server.
2. Configure the apache server to respond with virtual hosts for your aliased domains.
3. Populate the virtual servers with modified static copies of the corresponding sites.
4. Configure dhcpd to serve the bind instance as the DNS server.

Piece of cake. Email me for more specific instructions.

I did something similar on one of my older networks a while back. I had an ******* supernerd roommate, and he spent a lot of his time reading anime fanfictions. So I redirected his favorite sites to show ****** and lemonparty.

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Yeah, you pretty much want to do what GBK is saying. I've never configured bind or dhcpd before, but it doesn't look hard at all.

Aaah, bad news! Budget cuts mean that we no longer are renting a server. But the volume I'm expecting is somewhere around 100 users MAX. Probably around 20 at any given time. Could I still pull this off on a midrange desktop?

You could pull it off with a P2 200mhz if you really wanted. It doesn't take much at all to run bind/apache/dhcp.

You should redirect google.com here.

I installed BIND9, apache, and DHCP server software. Unfortunately, due to the budget cuts, I'm going to try and run this through my WinXP laptop.

Apache is up and running, but I don't know what parameters to include in <VirtualHost>. I should probably check some docs... but the conference is in less than 10 hours, aaaah!

BIND is running, but I can't get it to create named.key ...

The DHCP software successfully did something with IP requests on my network -- too bad that soemthing was disallowing everyone else from connecting to the network. :O

GBK or anyone else, can you help me walk through this tomorrow? I'll be on AIM and I'll try to get on IRC. My AIM name is Grismath.