On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using > DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. > https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ > > I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. > > I forgot about OpenDNS until after I sent the email. I configured the modem > to hand out the OpenDNS ip addrs via DHCP. I tested it. It with a few sites > and it blocked those, but the real test will be when people start using it > as one cannon imagine all the dark & creepy corners of the Internet that > people like to explore. > > The biggest problem with freee OpenDNS is that when a web site is blocked > throws up a generic Microsoft tech support page instead of something more > useful like"access to this site has been blocked because the content > violates our service usage policy." > > That must be a setting in there somewhere, because here whenever something is blocked it shows an OpenDNS page and even a link to contact the administrator. (Me, since it's just our home network.) I believe it does even let you know the category that it was blocked from. I've actually considered turning that off before, because some day my kids will start trying to get around it, and that might slow them down a little bit... Probably not much, though. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
