Do parental controls apply to wired connection to Netgear router?
Does the Netgear router apply parental controls to computers hooked by wired connections (in addition to the wireless ones it does work on)? It seems to work very well on the wireless connections, but the wired ones do not seem to have any filtering on them. How do I set up so that Parental controls work on the LAN connections?
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I would expect that it works for wired connections too. It shouldn't matter if the TCP/IP packets go via cupper cable or via radio waves.
Post the complete plain text output of the following command from a computer connected wired to the router:
nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
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And don't to turn it on in your router settings if using a Netgear modem through the Netgear Genie. I setup my OpenDNS account to filter what I wanted, but it was not doing the job. I looked at my router settings and it shows parental controls as disabled. I used the Genie to enable, and voila. No more nasty.
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Here is what I tested. I have a laptop with Netgear Genie installed and logged into the Parental Controls bypass account. When connected only via wireless, the configured Parental Controls filters work correctly. If I turn off the wireless on the laptop and connect directly to then Netgear router with a network cable, the Parental Controls no longer filter according to the bypass account configuration. If I maintain the wired connection and turn the laptop wireless connection back on, the Parental Controls still do not filter according to the bypass account configuration.
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"If I turn off the wireless on the laptop and connect directly to then Netgear router with a network cable, the Parental Controls no longer filter according to the bypass account configuration."
Amazing and surprising! This is a case for Netgear support, not for OpenDNS support. The Live Parental Controls are supposed to work with every connection type unless explicitly documented otherwise.
"If I maintain the wired connection and turn the laptop wireless connection back on, the Parental Controls still do not filter according to the bypass account configuration."
This sounds as if you didn't flush your caches after each change....
The content was still in the cache and you have been presented with this.https://support.opendns.com/entries/26336865-Clearing-the-DNS-Cache-on-Computers-and-Web-Browsers
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@martinly77 it looks like you're not configured to use OpenDNS. Please open a support ticket with us support@opendns.com so we can further troubleshoot the issue. I will update this thread if we find anything relevant.
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