Because OpenDNS does their filtering based on the source IP address, you
would have to have eat LAN have its own outgoing IP(s) using Outbound NAT
rules.

You can turn off the pfSense DNS altogether and just set the server to
forward all requests it cannot resolve directly to OpenDNS.

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Moshe Katz
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Tim Dressel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Someone else just asked a question that I responded to, but it actually
> triggered a question in my head and rather than highjack the thread I
> thought I'd start a new one.
>
> If you use OpenDNS to filter content, it works pretty seamlessly.
>
> Lets say that you have 4 LAN connections on different subnets, and a single
> WAN connection. How can you use pfSense DHCP to enable different DNS level
> filtering using OpenDNS? What I'm after is LAN1 to have no OpenDNS
> filtering, LAN2 to have filtering based upon one OpenDNS rule set, LAN3 to
> have different filtering from LAN 2, and LAN 4 to have different filtering
> again.
>
> I don't think this is possible with OpenDNS.
>
> Is there where dnsmasq comes into play? Then to complicate it a bit, I'd
> prefer to not use pfSense DHCP, but to use Windows AD integrated DNS, but
> use the pfsense server almost like a root hint or bypass server.
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback...
>
> Tim
>
>

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