I just change the DNS server on my personal computer/phone when I need to 
access blocked sites. 8.8.8.8 works fine.


On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you find OpenDNS too restrictive or not configurable enough? Stuff I want 
> to block the kids from also blocked me, like Amazon.com, Ebay.com, some news 
> sites, and similar places. I need those sites for my job and had to add them 
> to the white list. Problem was, you could only put 25 sites in the white 
> list. Does anyone know of a similar service that is more configurable?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Steven Huwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I use OpenDNS as the DNS for my router: 
>> 
>> http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> I know some of you have kids and was wondering what you do to keep them 
>>> safe online?
>>> 
>>> I've found that its a bit hit and miss myself:
>>> 
>>> 1. iPads not too bad as the Restrictions settings (password enabled) is 
>>> good enough to block Safari and Youtube. The main issue is remembering to 
>>> turn it on again after I've disabled it.
>>> 
>>> 2. Phones - I've had to get really strict and just ban my son (who's five) 
>>> from using my phone at all. Annoyingly, my daughter (who is 18 months) like 
>>> to press the Emergency Call option which doesn't need unlocking on my 
>>> Android phone.
>>> 
>>> 3. Windows XP - this is my wife's old work laptop that is now my son's to 
>>> use for some websites. I have disabled youtube by manipulating the hosts 
>>> file. For other sites I have to rely on the content advisor inside the 
>>> Windows settings. Not sure how good that is since my son still manages to 
>>> find flash-based websites to play games. Restricting to a specific site is 
>>> not always easy. I found an article detailing how to use the proxy settings 
>>> set to an invalid value (to completely disable all sites) then selectively 
>>> provide exceptions. Thing is, the site I gave him access to makes calls to 
>>> toher domains for images and CSS which then have to be added to the 
>>> exception list. Pain!!!
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts guys?
>>> 
>>> Rakesh
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