I've used OpenDNS in the past as well, and functionally, it worked great.  Did 
exactly what we wanted, which was blocking access to sites.  We did notice an 
odd problem though.  It was significantly slowing down our browsing 
periodically.  After enough of these episodes we went back to our old DNS, and 
the slow downs went away.

Just something to keep in mind if you use it, and notice anything odd down the 
road.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Web blocking

OpenDNS.com

Its free..Works well and we have it running at about a dozen sites.
Clients love it.  We charge time to go through and set it all up for
them, but then show them how to manage the lists etc..

Just point your Windows DNS Forwarders to look at their IP's and for
real security block DNS outbound to everything but their IP's.  

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Web blocking

On 17 Jun 2008 at 13:50, James Rankin  wrote:

> Anyone know where there is a (not necessarily up-to-date) list of
popular
> social networking sites, warez sites and other unproductive stuff that
an
> employer might be advised to block? I have a small client who won't
pay for
> filtering software and he wants to block off the usual rubbish such as
> MySpace, Facebook, etc. Just wondering if anyone knows where there is
a list
> of the most popular such sites I could get hold of? 

You might advise him that the cost of keeping the list of blocked sites
current 
will quickly exceed the cost of a subscription.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
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