{"id":77,"date":"2008-05-20T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-09-19T22:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:08:50","slug":"using-opendnscom-to-block-unwanted-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Using openDNS.com to block unwanted web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contents<\/h2>\n
    \n\t
  1. \n\t\tOverview<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  2. \n\t\tSetup DNS Servers in Verizon FIOS Router<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  3. \n\t\tSetup OpenDNS<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  4. \n\t\tSetup OpenDNS Dynamic IP Updater Client<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  5. \n\t\tLock Down DNS Server on Home Computer<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
     <\/div>\n

    Overview<\/h2><\/span>\n

    * www.opendns.com<\/a>
    \n*     https:\/\/dashboard.opendns.com\/<\/a>
    \n* OpenDNS DNS servers:
    \n208.67.222.222<\/strong>
    \n208.67.220.220<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Setup DNS Servers in Verizon FIOS Router<\/h2><\/span>\n

    See here<\/a>
    \n* Login Verizon FIOS router, i.e. Actiontec mi424wr
    \n* Go to My Network > Network Connections<\/em>
    \n* Click edit icon to the right of Network (Home\/Office)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

    * Click Settings <\/em> button at the bottom of the page
    \n* Enter Primary DNS Server
    \n208.67.222.222<\/strong>
    \n* Enter Secondary DNS Server
    \n208.67.220.220<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

    * Click Apply <\/em>button at the bottom of the page
    \n* Optionally you can always block\/unblock a specific domain<\/p>\n

    Setup OpenDNS<\/h2><\/span>\n

    * Find your public IP here<\/a>
    \n* Create an account with OpenDNS
    \n* Login OpenDNS     here<\/a>
    \n* Create an OpenDNS network using your public IP
    \n* Select your network
    \n* Select web content filtering level:<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

    * Click Apply<\/em><\/p>\n

    Setup OpenDNS Dynamic IP Updater Client<\/h2><\/span>\n

    This is used to automatically update your public IP in OpenDNS if it changes
    \n* Down OpenDNS Windows Client from     here<\/a>
    \n* Download appropriate client, e.g.     Windows IP Updater<\/a>
    \n* Double click to instlal<\/p>\n

    Lock Down DNS Server on Home Computer<\/h2><\/span>\n

    This is used to prevent home computer users from changing computer’s DNS servers
    \nOne solution is that you could configure your router to block DNS traffic for particular computers.<\/p>\n

    For example, for my Verizon FIOS router (MI424WR), go to:
    \nFirewall settings > Access Control > Add<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"opendns_verizonfios_block_dns_add\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
    \"opendns_verizonfios_block_dns_blocked\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Overview * www.opendns.com * https:\/\/dashboard.opendns.com\/ * OpenDNS DNS servers: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Setup DNS Servers in Verizon FIOS Router See here * Login Verizon FIOS router, i.e. Actiontec mi424wr * Go to My Network > Network Connections * Click edit icon … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cRUO-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12068,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}