[Cialug] Blocking

Nick Fox nfox at foxmediasystems.com
Thu May 7 22:12:15 CDT 2009


That was Tom's suggestion. It's a very viable one. And seems reasonable 
enough. Also if you want to do this and dont want to use Mediacom's DNS 
servers, use this one: 4.2.2.2, its free, public and has always gotten 
me around Mediacom's failures.

-Nick

Allen Kiddoo wrote:
> Can't you change the dns setting on each computer. Filter = 
> opendns.com <http://opendns.com> No Filter = ISP
>
> Allen Kiddoo
> Ioway Record Printing Co.
> 316 West Third St.
> Muscatine, IA 52761
> 563.263.7822 office
> 563.506.0446 mobile
> Chat: Skype: akiddoo
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Nick Fox <nfox at foxmediasystems.com 
> <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yup. There is thinking outside the box. But then you can't use it on
>     those other machines. Otherwise great idea Tom.
>
>     -Nick
>
>     Tom Pohl wrote:
>     > Couldn't you use OpenDNS as the DNS servers that are handed out via
>     > DHCP and statically set non filtered DNS servers on the
>     computers you
>     > don't want to be filtered? :)
>     >
>     > -Tom
>     >
>     > On May 7, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Nick Fox wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> This is true, but it is a global filter. OpenDNS cannot block
>     based on
>     >> your internal IP for a specific computer. Personally its not a bad
>     >> idea
>     >> to switch to OpenDNS anyhow. I did sometime ago. What is needed
>     here
>     >> is
>     >> something that can handle web content filtering on a Private IP
>     basis.
>     >> While  am sure there are more options than Fortinet and Vyatta,
>     they
>     >> are
>     >> two I am familiar with and have seen great results from.
>     >>
>     >> -Nick
>     >>
>     >> Allen Kiddoo wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> I have read that schools and libraries use it to filter sites.
>     >>>
>     >>> AK
>     >>> Chat: Skype: akiddoo
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Nick Fox
>     <nfox at foxmediasystems.com <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>
>     >>> <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com
>     <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>    OpenDNS doesn't allowing filtering for private IPs does it?
>     >>>
>     >>>    -Nick
>     >>>
>     >>>    Allen Kiddoo wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> Switch dns to opendns.com <http://opendns.com>
>     <http://opendns.com> <http://opendns.com>
>     >>>> Then get free account.
>     >>>> You can set filter rules there.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Allen Kiddoo
>     >>>> Ioway Record Printing Co.
>     >>>> 316 West Third St.
>     >>>> Muscatine, IA 52761
>     >>>> 563.263.7822 office
>     >>>> 563.506.0446 mobile
>     >>>> Chat: Skype: akiddoo
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Nick Fox
>     >>>>
>     >>>    <nfox at foxmediasystems.com <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>
>     <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>>
>     >>>
>     >>>> <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com
>     <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>
>     >>>>
>     >>>    <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com
>     <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>>>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>>    Dan Hockey wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> I have a netgear router that has abilities to block sites
>     >>>>>
>     >>>    based
>     >>>
>     >>>>    on key words
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> or address'. The problem is when I turn on this it blocks
>     >>>>>
>     >>>    these
>     >>>
>     >>>>    sites to
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> every one. I would like to block access to sites based on ip
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>    address, so a
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> certain niece can't get to those sites with her computer. Are
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>    there any
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> routers can do something like this or do I set a linux box
>     >>>>>
>     >>>    to do it.
>     >>>
>     >>>>> -dh
>     >>>>>
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>     >>>>>
>     >>>>    Fortinet Firewalls provide great success for such things.
>     >>>>
>     >>>    However
>     >>>
>     >>>>    if you
>     >>>>    are more inclined to free...you might consider Vyatta. If
>     you do
>     >>>>    want to
>     >>>>    go the Fortinet route, contact me directly and I can help
>     >>>>
>     >>>    you with it.
>     >>>
>     >>>>    --
>     >>>>    Nick Fox
>     >>>>
>     >>>>    Fox Media Systems, LLC
>     >>>>    Owner / President
>     >>>>    1338 57th St.
>     >>>>    Des Moines, IA 50311
>     >>>>    www.foxmediasystems.com <http://www.foxmediasystems.com>
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>     >> 1338 57th St.
>     >> Des Moines, IA 50311
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>     Owner / President
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>     Des Moines, IA 50311
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Nick Fox

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