Family shield doesn't work.

donthate

July 02, 2013 01:15

installed the dns servers on my router and my computer, can still pull up porn sites. Flushed the cache in terminal on OSX 10.6.8 and web browser history. are there settings somewhere that I missed?

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rotblitz July 02, 2013 09:45

You hopefully didn't install something, but just configured the OpenDNS resolver addresses.

It may be that your ISP redirects your DNS lookups to their DNS service, preventing you from using 3rd party DNS services.

Post the complete plain text output of the following command:

nslookup -type=txt which.opendns.com. 208.67.220.220

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maintenance July 04, 2013 22:13

Also you said, "and web browser history." You must flush the web browser cache.

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mtapsak July 10, 2013 03:31

I'm having the same issue, here is the result from the suggested command:

Server: resolver2.opendns.com

Addres: 208.67.220.220

Non-authoritative answer:

which.opendns.com text="11.chi"

Thanks for any help.

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rotblitz July 10, 2013 11:50

No, you don't have the same problem. Nobody ever has the same problem. Therefore this wasn't the right command output.

Open your own thread please.

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cougar1234 July 14, 2013 20:52

I changed my DNS settings as requested and checked to make sure they were there using IPconfig/all.

but it doesn't work.

settings.JPG

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rotblitz July 14, 2013 21:29

...but the most interesting things cannot be seen on your picture. Better copy and paste the complete output as plain text.

And best is you open an own thread instead of stealing someone else's.

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Ashley Williams July 24, 2013 22:52

@donthate, What do you see when you visit http://welcome.opendns.com and http://exampleadultsite.com on the computer on the network on which you've configured FamilyShield?

You can use both of those sites to test whether or not FamilyShield is working. The first URL tests whether or not you are using OpenDNS, and the second tests whether or not the Pornography or Nudity categories are blocked.

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wordmore November 07, 2013 20:13

Hi!

I got the family shield working. Actually it blocks now suspicious sites but if i use the image searching tools in Google or others site i can see a lot of porn pictures in preview. Is there something i can do to avoid it.

Thanks!

Jess

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maintenance November 07, 2013 23:23

You have to address such with Google's own tools (Safe Search), as all of those are hosted by Google in their search results. The only thing you can do with OpenDNS is to block Google domains, which would render Google services somewhat broken to unusable.

Other options include keyword filtering which may be available on your router, or an additional software filtering for such things.

This would also be best addressed in it's own thread, as it is again truly a completely separate issue from the original post. :)

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yosamite_sam January 15, 2014 17:56

Is there a way to check if my ISP (Cogeco) is redirecting DNS Lookup to their DNS Service? Thanks

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rotblitz January 16, 2014 11:21

Yes, but this would be a different topic from "Family shield doesn't work". So better raise a new thread.

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