Bypass account not working
Hi,
I'm using Netgear Parental controls, and have set up a bypass account for my PC. I've installed Netgear Genie on my PC (Windows 8), but I am still being blocked websites on this PC.
The "Parental Controls" section of Genis confirms that I'm logged into my Bypass account, and when I configure parental controls, my bypass account has no controls set.
Anyone help?
Thanks.
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So, did you configure the content filtering settings for your bypass account at https://netgear.opendns.com/ ? E.g. level "none"?
Post the complete plain text output of the following command here:
nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
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I'm having the same issue. This was working fine before I upgraded my router's firmware but now it's as if I don't even have a bypass account.
I ran the above command and got the following:
1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
primary name server = localhost
responsible mail addr = nobody.invalid
serial = 1
refresh = 600 (10 mins)
retry = 1200 (20 mins)
expire = 604800 (7 days)
default TTL = 10800 (3 hours)
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
debug.opendns.com text =
"server 1.lax"
debug.opendns.com text =
"device 000067ECD245D995"
debug.opendns.com text =
"flags 422 0 B2 1840000000000000000"
debug.opendns.com text =
"originid 28679689"
debug.opendns.com text =
"actype 1"
debug.opendns.com text =
"bundle 28679689"
debug.opendns.com text =
"source 70.190.80.2:32769" -
Ensure that you don't attempt to use Netgear LPC and OpenDNS Home in parallel. These are not compatible.
I.e. there should be no network configured at https://dashboard.opendns.com/settings/ with your IP address e.g. 70.190.80.2. If there's a network, then delete it. Your dashboard is only at https://netgear.opendns.com/You may also need to configure your router from anew with Genie to enable LPC.
http://www.netgear.com/home/discover/apps/genie.aspx -
I did have networks for both. I deleted the OpenDNS one and it seems to work fine now.
However, I am trying to blacklist a couple of domains to prevent the kids from getting on them but if I do this, I am unable to get on the domains as well. Can a bypass account bypass the blacklisted domains too? ... or does it only bypass the filtering levels (low, med, high)?
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"I am unable to get on the domains as well."
Did you flush your caches before trying? You should, else you may still be presented with content from your caches.
"Can a bypass account bypass the blacklisted domains too? ... or does it only bypass the filtering levels (low, med, high)?"
Unfortunately this is not clearly documented on http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/25687/ (from step 11).
But it seems that the bypass is applied only to categories (= levels), not to individually blocked domains.You can work around this while adding entries into your local hosts file for the domains you have blocked but want to access, bypassing the LPC restrictions. If you don't know how, let me know about examples of blacklisted domains, and I can provide suggestions.
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Thank you for your help.
I'm not sure how to add entries into my local hosts file so any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I want to block googlevideo.com and l.google.com
These are domains that youtube apps (for tablets) access for youtube videos. Even though youtube.com is blocked through the browser, my kids are still able to access youtube videos through their app.
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"I want to block googlevideo.com and l.google.com"
...but you want to access it from your computer? This is a bit tricky. Unlike at OpenDNS, these domains do not mean itself and all their subdomains, but in the hosts file you must exactly specify them, the full subdomains.
So you have to find out the full (sub)domain names from your domain stats: https://dashboard.opendns.com/stats/all/topdomains
And then you look up the IP address(es) for each (sub)domain name, from a non-filtered network, for example if you want to block googleusercontent.com via LPC:
nslookup -type=a oauth.googleusercontent.com.
Server: dns1.local.prv
Address: 10.165.161.12
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: googlehosted.l.googleusercontent.com
Address: 216.58.209.225
Aliases: oauth.googleusercontent.comThen you add the following line to your hosts file:
216.58.209.225 oauth.googleusercontent.com googlehosted.l.googleusercontent.com
"Even though youtube.com is blocked through the browser, my kids are still able to access youtube videos through their app."
Then you may want to read https://support.opendns.com/entries/30128744-YouTube-app-not-being-blocked-on-iPads
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