06-25-2020 12:41 PM
I am trying to make sure that ALL porn sites are blocked with OpenDNS on my network.
I use a Google WiFi router setup and have followed the setup instructions on changing the DNS settings in the (there were no specific instructions for Google WiFi but I was able to figure it out using the iPhone app that I have). I have also created a profile on the OpenDNS website adding my IP address and setting 'moderate' to my filtering. I have run the test that is on the OpenDNS website and it states that my filtering is active.
I have tested a few porn sites and they are being blocked but www.pornhub.com isn't. It is listed on the OpenDNS website as a blacklisted porn site....but all of my computers are still able to access it.
Can anyone help?
06-25-2020 12:47 PM
"the test that is on the OpenDNS website and it states that my filtering is active."
There is not such test which could confirm that the filtering is active. So this is not true.
Let's start easy: what does http://welcome.opendns.com/ come back with?
Also copy & paste the complete plain text output of the following diagnostic commands to here:
nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
nslookup whoami.akamai.net.
06-25-2020 12:53 PM
That URL that you just sent me is the test that I was referring to.
It says:
In response to your commands, here are the results (I assume you meant for me to run these commands at a Command Prompt).
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
Server: testwifi.here
Address: 192.168.86.1
Non-authoritative answer:
debug.opendns.com text =
"server m33.nyc"
debug.opendns.com text =
"flags 40020 0 8050 1800000000000000000039500007E00400014C3"
debug.opendns.com text =
"originid 434743468"
debug.opendns.com text =
"actype 2"
debug.opendns.com text =
"bundle 12764316"
debug.opendns.com text =
"source 68.172.216.68:36951"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup whoami.akamai.net
Server: testwifi.here
Address: 192.168.86.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: whoami.akamai.net
Address: 208.67.217.40
06-25-2020 01:19 PM
I am not 100% certain what happened but the site is now blocked.
Maybe it took a while to index all of the sites?
I believe I am good now. Thank you.
06-25-2020 02:39 PM
There is no indexing at all. But there are your local caches which present you with old stuff for a while if you don’t initially flush them.
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227988627
06-25-2020 03:24 PM
It’s strange because I didn’t make any changes and it started blocking the sites that I tried 30 minutes prior. I had previously flushed everything immediately. Thanks for the help!
06-26-2020 07:13 AM
Apparently not flushed everything.
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