youtube is not being blocked
I have video sharing blocked, but I can still access youtube. What am I doing wrong?
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What does http://welcome.opendns.com/ show up with?
If you're using OpenDNS, is your IP address information correctly registered with OpenDNS?
https://dashboard.opendns.com/settings/ -
Additionally, YouTube has an extremely high TTL, meaning that it will be cached on your computer longer than some other sites. If the tests that rotblitz provided work, but you're still unable to reach YouTube, please try clearing your cache, as shown here: https://support.opendns.com/entries/26336865, and see if you can still reach YouTube.
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
Having visited http://welcome.opendns.com I can confirm that the iPads are using OpenDNS and that Safari's access on the pads to YouTube is blocked, but not the apps which retain full access.
Kindest regards,
Dave Fowler-Timms -
Then the iPad apps seem to disregard your DNS configuration but may use their own, or the apps use different domains not being blocked by your settings..
See https://dashboard.opendns.com/stats/all/topdomains to possibly find the domains.
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Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I hope this is not the case but your message reads as though you are seeking to wash your hands of this issue.
There are no settings made on the iPads that would otherwise affect their using OpenDNS.
My OpenDNS settings are almost the default.. Video Sharing sites are blocked but 'accounts.youtube.com' is whitelisted as other Google services use it for authentication.
It appears to me that the iPad YouTube app seeks different IP addresses to the Android YouTube app and these have not been identified by OpenDNS admins as needing blocking.
Please could you investigate this?
You direct me to your "topdomains" URL but surely, any domains identified there would already be blocked by OpenDNS's Video Sharing blocking by default, making this a mute exercise??
Many thanks,
Dave Fowler-Timms -
"as though you are seeking to wash your hands of this issue."
Why should I? I as OpenDNS user like you do care about dirty hands in no way... ;-)
I just use extensively my freedom of speach right."There are no settings made on the iPads that would otherwise affect their using OpenDNS."
How can you know what default settings are used by those apps? Are you a prophet, or an app developer?
"It appears to me that the iPad YouTube app seeks different IP addresses to the Android YouTube app"
This would be irrelevant. If IP addresses are being used, then nothing goes through OpenDNS, so no way to block anything by OpenDNS. If you mean "domain names" by "IP addresses", then you are most likely right.
"and these have not been identified by OpenDNS admins as needing blocking."
LOL: This is not how this is supposed to work. Domain tagging is a community effort with OpenDNS not much involved:
http://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/faq/"Please could you investigate this?"
What? I do not have time and not motivation, sorry. Please do it yourself instead of asking other users like you to do it for you.
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"Looks like we have to purchase the paid version to get IOS devices to work."
Why should a paid version of OpenDNS be able to do more? Just because of money? There are many things in the world money can't buy. Didn't know?
And iOS devices do work. It's naturally ok that an app behaves as it is supposed to. This is the purpose of an app, isn't it? It's not normal if you want to have it blocked.
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And if you want to restrict content and apps on iOS devices, you may consider to use the built-in features in addition to OpenDNS.
http://ipod.about.com/od/KidsiPhoneiPodTouch/f/What-Apps-Can-Iphone-Ipod-Touch-Restrictions-Block.htm
http://www.bewebsmart.com/ipod-ipad-iphone/two-ios-7-features-parents-will-love/ -
Thanks for the link rotblitz. Just configured my boy's iPad mini using the above iOS7 guide above.
Struggling with openDNS though. Running off a router that doesn't allow DNS configuration therefore thought I would do it against my external IP as reported by openDNS and whatsmyip.org, then point the device to the openDNS resolver servers via the IP I set up as my home network.
However, despite configuring it like that - then doing hard reset on the device, no joy. Its not reporting openDNS as being used from http:/welcome.opendns.com, so I thought it might be cached - cleared down cache and tried again, same response. Then tried internetbadguys.com which definitely wasn't cached..... And got the demonstration site response, so for sure it's not running the way it should!
I know it's bad form to hijack another thread but the title carries for my problem too....?
Any help would be appreciated, as openDNs
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Thanks for the link rotblitz. Just configured my boy's iPad mini using the above iOS7 guide above.
Struggling with openDNS though. Running off a router that doesn't allow DNS configuration therefore thought I would do it against my external IP as reported by openDNS and whatsmyip.org, then point the device to the openDNS resolver servers via the IP I set up as my home network.
However, despite configuring it like that - then doing hard reset on the device, no joy. Its not reporting openDNS as being used from http:/welcome.opendns.com, so I thought it might be cached - cleared down cache and tried again, same response. Then tried internetbadguys.com which definitely wasn't cached..... And got the demonstration site response, so for sure it's not running the way it should!
I know it's bad form to hijack another thread but the title carries for my problem too....?
Any help would be appreciated, as openDNs
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Thanks for the link rotblitz. Just configured my boy's iPad mini using the above iOS7 guide above.
Struggling with openDNS though. Running off a router that doesn't allow DNS configuration therefore thought I would do it against my external IP as reported by openDNS and whatsmyip.org, then point the device to the openDNS resolver servers via the IP I set up as my home network.
However, despite configuring it like that - then doing hard reset on the device, no joy. Its not reporting openDNS as being used from http:/welcome.opendns.com, so I thought it might be cached - cleared down cache and tried again, same response. Then tried internetbadguys.com which definitely wasn't cached..... And got the demonstration site response, so for sure it's not running the way it should!
I know it's bad form to hijack another thread but the title carries for my problem too....?
Any help would be appreciated, as openDNs
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"Running off a router that doesn't allow DNS configuration"
Then you must configure the OpenDNS resolver addresses on the related end user devices, else everything else is fruitless.
https://store.opendns.com/setup/computer -
Check out this topic: https://support.opendns.com/entries/30128744-YouTube-app-not-being-blocked-on-iPads
The answer seems to be provided there by robvb.
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The youtube app will use googlevideo.com and ytimg.l.google.com to load some videos direct from the CDN (content network) and would need to be blocked on your domain list to block the youtube app fully. The app does not use Google's own DNS and will make DNS requests via OpenDNS as long as your network or device is configured as such.
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Ironically, Google also gives you some information on how to go about blocking YouTube:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622
- www.youtube.com
- m.youtube.com
- youtubei.googleapis.com
- youtube.googleapis.com
- www.youtube-nocookie.com
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