OpenDNS is not blocking sites

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sherebiah

February 07, 2020 19:20

Hello

I made router to use DNS addresses OpenDNS asks to configure. After configuration I got sites blocked as expected. I have chosen Custom categories and accordingly it blocked couple of porn sites I tried to browse. But suddenly after few minutes it stopped blocking and now I able to browse the porn sites which was being blocked few minutes ago.

The router I am using : Netgear C6900

The router setup dashboard shows DNS as below, i

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208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 2001:558:feed::1, 2001:558:feed::2

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dont know where those ::1 and ::2 is coming from. I never configured it and when I go to conifguration page where I put the IPs it shows only OpenDNS gateway IPs.

When i go to welcome page it shows "Oops!" :(

The output of commands suggested on another thread is as shown below

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sherebiahtishbi@sherdelldesktop:~$ nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com. 208.67.220.220
Server: 208.67.220.220
Address: 208.67.220.220#53

Non-authoritative answer:
debug.opendns.com text = "server m57.nyc"
debug.opendns.com text = "flags 40020 0 50 1800000000000000000039504007F00400800C3"
debug.opendns.com text = "originid 365260174"
debug.opendns.com text = "actype 2"
debug.opendns.com text = "bundle 12466816"
debug.opendns.com text = "source 69.141.94.37:32873"

Authoritative answers can be found from:

sherebiahtishbi@sherdelldesktop:~$ nslookup whoami.akamai.net.
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: whoami.akamai.net
Address: 76.96.52.139

sherebiahtishbi@sherdelldesktop:~$ netsh interface ip show dns
netsh: command not found

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Can you please help what am i doing wrong?

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  rotblitz February 07, 2020 21:03 (Edited February 08, 2020 00:28)

  What is this 127.0.0.53 where your DNS queries go to?  Where do they go afterwards?  Apparently not to OpenDNS.

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  sherebiah February 08, 2020 16:53

  I do not know where it comes from!!! Can you help how I can find that ?

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  rotblitz February 08, 2020 17:02

  What OS is this computer, Linux or Mac?

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  vaper November 15, 2020 19:17

  So, i finally got it to block sites.  I was having issues from the beginning. Sites not blocked for 24 hours, then sudently they would be blocked and then revert to unblocked...

   

  I was trying to block pbskids games from my 7 year old :)  i only allow her to play a little bit, but it was becoming too much to control...

   

  The issue i had:

   

  My netgear R700 had 2 options

  

   

  I had inadvertently selected the Open DNS parental controls and also added the DNS Servers

   

   

  Once i disabled both parental controls, it finally worked.  For the life of me, i couldn't understand what i was doing wrong... 

   

   

   

   

   

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  rotblitz November 15, 2020 19:33

  I know. You tried to use Live Parental Controls and OpenDNS in parallel. This does not work, because these services are incompatible. You can just use one of them.

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  vaper November 15, 2020 22:12

  Yes, but finally it worked ... was this a new option with updated firmware?  Rotblitz, i had been reading alot of your responses, and it did help me to troubleshoot... so thanks...

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  rotblitz November 15, 2020 22:47 (Edited November 15, 2020 22:49)

  No new option with updated firmware. The services have different dashboards.

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