How can I get specific details of which computer/device tried access which site?
We have eleven devices plus the printer that all connect to the internet. In my Netgear site, I thought I could drill down and figure out which device had accessed certain websites, but today when I went back, all the IP addresses for each device are different. It appears to change based on which one is connected when. So in the logs on Netgear, it gives the IP address for where the source of the web address came from, but if these numbers change daily based on how many are connected or when, how I can pinpoint who exactly is trying to access the not so nice stuff? OpenDNS logs don't seem to give any clue about specific devices. I need to know exactly who is trying access this stuff, so I can get to the bottom of this. Two days ago I printed out 7 pages of blocked access attempts and they were all to very bad websites.
For example, yesterday my printer's address ended in 0.7, but today my son's computer has that address.
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OpenDNS can see only your public IP address from you, as should be. (You wouldn't be happy if any external site/service/hacker/whatever would be able to see into your LAN, would you?) And OpenDNS sees only your DNS lookups (i.e. queried domain names) out of your network, not your web traffic. DNS is the phone book of the internet, not the phone lines.
Regarding your changing internal IP addresses, this is because you have a dynamic DHCP controlled scheme set up by default for your network. You could use the MAC addresses (these do not change) instead of the IP addresses to identify a certain device.
If this is not an option, you'll assign a static internal IP address for every device, a unique IP address outside the DHCP range of your router, but within the IP address range of your LAN. This is a bit more maintenance effort than a dynamic DHCP controlled IP address scheme though.
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