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October 25, 2015 21:39

I want to be able to schedule a block rule, making a site available during set hours, but blocked the rest of the time.

For example, www.facebook.com should be available from 9:00am to 9:00pm, but it should be blocked from 9:00pm to 9:00am.

Other examples:

I want to to allow www.netflix.com from 5:00pm to 8:00pm Monday through Thursday and 6:00pm to midnight Friday and Saturday night.  All other hours it would be blocked.

Whitelist:

I want to block all from Midnight to 5:00am except my VoIP service provider.

 

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  mattwilson9090 October 25, 2015 22:11

  This idea has been discussed and suggested many times.

  In short, for technical reasons having to do with how DNS works, with a cloud based DNS service such as OpenDNS this type of scheduling is not possible. Without a complete rewrite of how DNS works, you need either locally running software on your device, or something running on your firewall/router to do this for you. Currently the only OpenDNS related product that does this are routers that use LPC (Live Parental Controls). Netgear makes a full line of routers with the functionality as a major part of what they offer.

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  rotblitz October 26, 2015 07:17

  See:
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/23105750
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/27748414
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/68916844
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/42689420
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/27083420
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/22068095
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/21855380
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/21809639
  https://support.opendns.com/entries/44783124

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  layer3nz November 25, 2015 20:47

  Yeah, needed so badly. Make policies time bound. Virtually every other service can do this.

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  mattwilson9090 November 25, 2015 22:20

  So have you bothered to read any of the discussion on this, including the reasons why a DNS service cannot be time based, or that you can do this already if you get a Netgear router with LPC? If those services are internet and DNS based (like OpenDNS) then they cannot do this. They require local hardware or software in order to provide time based service.

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  layer3nz November 25, 2015 22:23

  Yes, and what do they have? Roaming clients, software. Hence it can be done.

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  Patrick Colford November 25, 2015 22:25

  As mentioned here (https://support.opendns.com/entries/21793019-Time-based-control-over-category-filtering) this feature isn't planned, and is possible through the LPC service.

  Thank you.

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