topic Re: Suspicious of kids looking at porn in OpenDNS

Suspicious of kids looking at porn

jmiller298 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 04:01:58 GMT

I installed openDNS to my network a few weeks ago and I've been checking up on it to see if my suspicions are correct that my kids have been watching porn. However, when I go to the stats page, none of the names display a url I can easily recognize as an adult website. For example, one domain is ytg.ggpht.com and when I google search that nothing comes up. Any help?

Re: Suspicious of kids looking at porn

mattwilson9090 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 05:00:36 GMT

OpenDNS is a DNS based system, and as such knows nothing about URL's (or anything else) that are visited. It only knows about domain name requests that it receives from your network.

When you are looking at your stats you can sort by various things, including what is blocked. If you click on a blocked domain it will tell you "why" a particular domain was blocked, generally because the domain belongs to a category that you want blocked

You can also look up individual domains in the domain tagging section of this website https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/ That particular domain you listed is not currently categorized, but the parent domain is currently being voted on https://domain.opendns.com/ggpht.com?__utma=120785690.151338177.1421455055.1440985361.1441601680.27&__utmb=120785690.4.10.1441601680&__utmc=120785690&__utmx=-&__utmz=120785690.1421455055.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=204022800 It doesn't appear to be any sort of porn site, but more than likely is a domain used for advertising purposes, or perhaps malware

Just remember, just because you see a domain listed in your stats does not mean that anyone visited any particular website. It could just as easily be a domain that is used for resources on a webpage or something else

Also, if you are worried about your kids or someone else going to websites you don't want them going to, you need to make sure that they are actually using OpenDNS on all of their devices and aren't instead using a different DNS service. There are many ways to do that, but one of the most important methods is to remove administrator level rights on those devices so they can't change settings you don't want changed.

Re: Suspicious of kids looking at porn

danicheu — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 16:21:29 GMT

Great response, mattwilson9090! Thanks for your detailed explanation of this.

Re: Suspicious of kids looking at porn

rotblitz — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:17:29 GMT

@jmiller298
The domain ggpht.com is owned by Google/YouTube, and its subdomains are being used to host visual content like images and videos of the Google corporation. Even more, the subdomain ytg.ggpht.com does not exist. Did you mean yt3.ggpht.com instead? That is being used for some YouTube content.

Re: Suspicious of kids looking at porn

hung2b — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:04:46 GMT

have you considered adding a hardware keylogger to a child's computer?

as the parent this is legal for you