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Using Family Friendly DNS on same IP as OpenDNS

xyzulu
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So, I have an network setup using OpenDNS and the filtering etc is working just fine. However, we have a single computer we want to have more access than the others. I thought it would be feasible to use the Family Friendly DNS on this computer.. however after testing I've noted that the blocks implemented on the entire network apply to this computer despite using different DNS.

Obviously setting Google Public DNS gives this computer full access, but I would prefer to have some stuff blocked (the stuff OpenDNS Family Friendly DNS blocks)

 

Any suggestions?

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mattwilson9090
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OpenDNS does not have a product named "Family Friendly", though they do have FamilyShield.

If some computers on your network are using "standard" OpenDNS using a dashboard configuration, and some on your network are instead pointed to the FamilyShield addresses those computers will use both the more restrictive FamilyShield settings (which cannot be whitelisted in any way) plus whatever whitelist and blacklist settings you've specified in your dashboard (except of course your whitelist settings won't apply to annoying blocked by FamilyShield).

If you want this computer to have different DNS filtering settings from the rest of the computers you'll need to make sure that that the computer a) uses a different DNS service entirely (while also making sure that your router isn't somehow directing all DNS traffic to OpenDNS or b) subscribe to one of the paid OpenDNS services, such as Umbrella that would allow you to specify different filtering settings for each computer or c) use a Netgear Router with LPC (Live Parental Controls) which allows ways for individual users to bypass some or all of the DNS filtering.

xyzulu
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Yeah, I figured as much.

Sorry.. FamilyShield is what I was talking about.