topic Reddit - blocking works only with subdomains, not with reddit.com/r/subreddit format in OpenDNS

Reddit - blocking works only with subdomains, not with reddit.com/r/subreddit format

zeevg — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:58:32 GMT

The family blocking option works to block adult subreddits ONLY when using the subdomain format, e.g.,

nsfw.reddit.com

But it does not work if browsing with

reddit.com/r/nsfw

This should be fixed.

Re: Reddit - blocking works only with subdomains, not with reddit.com/r/subreddit format

mattwilson9090 — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:01:13 GMT

What do you mean by "This should be fixed."? Fixed by whom?

OpenDNS is at heart a DNS service, and all of it's blocking is based off of domain names only. It doesn't work with anything else, including websites, web pages, URL's, image, content, or anything else that is not only a domain name.

As such, as you've observed it can block nsfw.reddit.com

reddit.com/r/nsfw is not a domain name, although it contains a domain name. Therefore there is no way to block this address.

Re: Reddit - blocking works only with subdomains, not with reddit.com/r/subreddit format

pcbeard — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:46:53 GMT

Block reddit.com, then whitelist the specific sub domains you want to allow.

Except that it does a redirect from sub.reddit.com to www.reddit.com/r/sub/.