Track devices accessed websites with a VPN?

[TheDirtySox]

Hey, so me and my group of friends are trying to make each other accountable for the stuff we do online and the sites we access. I didn't know if anyone knew of some way we could track each other's phones, tablets and computers. A simple browser app like covenant eyes won't work because there are many ways to get around those, being a very techie person I can get around most things pretty easily. My idea was to use some sort of VPN service or something that would log our accessed sites and when we were on/off of the VPN. Most devices use a VPN and it wouldn't be too hard to configure on the device end. I would really appreciate if someone found a good solution, I'm up for anything, and like I said, I'm very techie so I can follow some technically difficult steps if needed. Also it needs to be cheap or preferably free.

 

[bill001g]

But VPN is the method or proxy is the method used to bypass a tracking system that you build. We run a proxy service at work and that is the only way a machine has access to the internet. The proxy can track most activity but because of HTTPS it is not as useful as it once was. You must limit rules to the whole site. Before you could for example just block parts of websites for example part of craigslist that were adult and let the rest open.

Still you would get a list of ip address and sites with a proxy.

Problem is there is little stopping someone from using a proxy or a vpn to bypass the checking. All you would see is lot of traffic to say hidemyass on HTTPS ports. Using a commercial proxy that has a subscription to sites you can block well known proxy and vpn services but this does little to stop someone who builds a vpn to friends house or rents a hosting server and builds a private vpn.

Someone who is very technical can always buy pass the restrictions. You can to a point restrict say a PC with group policy to prevent installation of proxy or vpn but a skilled user that has admin rights on the machine can bypass most that too if they are willing to edit registry settings.

 

[Bruce Geng]

There is no VPN server has this feature.

If your guys are in different networks, I am afriad there is no solution.
If you are in a same network, you can deploy a passive internet monitoring program(ie: WFilter Enterprise) to monitor web activites and bandwidth usage of network clients.

 

[TheDirtySox]

Okay, but could the vpn server log the IP addresses of the devices and websites that the devices are accessing, and when the device gets on and off that vpn, then have some program read the log and tell me what device was accessing what website or server? I would have to give it nicknames for each devices IP. Or is there even some app that can set up an internal vpn, like the adblock app on the iphone, that will route traffic through there but also log the IP addresses of the websites that were accessed, and upload the log every day or 3 days or something like that to a cloud service or something like that?

If theres even something else besides a VPN that will be able to log all internet traffic of a device/when it gets on and off that tracker and be able to send that log, that would be totally fine, I'm just thinking that VPN is the most universal thing that might be capable of doing something like this.

 

[bill001g]

The simplest is a proxy. Socks is the best known free proxy. By default you will get fairly good logs. A VPN server does not really have a logging feature of sites the end users go to you would have to add that function.