How to purge stats?
Is there a way to clear the stats? I'm trying to track down which computer is generating requests to blocked sites, and want to start all over after having cleared the caches in the browsers and the computers.
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Dashboard > Settings > Stats and Logs > Purge DNS data
But better don't do this, it won't help in your case. The job will be scheduled and run at any time later when you least expect it. This is only good for if you want to finally purge your data for privacy and such reasons.
And stats are not real-time but take 1-3 hours to appear.
These two factors, unknown purge time and delayed stats appearance render this function suboptimal for what you want to achieve. Better limit the domain stats display by selecting a single day.
If you want to track what DNS queries a certain computer actually raises, simply use a DNS query sniffer like http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dns_query_sniffer.html or http://www.pyrenean.com/Filtering
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Thank you for your helpful comment! I will check out the sniffers.
But for future reference, I still don't see where I get to the Purge function. The only functionality available under the Settings tab is to modify plan info and assign networks . I see a "Delete" button associated with my home network, but I don't know whether that is for deleting the network or deleting the stats. It must be something very obvious that I'm missing!
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At https://dashboard.opendns.com/settings/ click your network's IP address, and then see the menu on the left side, e.g. "Stats and Logs".
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