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r1209876

December 21, 2020 16:59

Hi,

 

 it would be good to add services like apple.com APP store etc or Office 365 authentication if they are blocked by a different category. 

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  rotblitz December 21, 2020 17:32

  This is not the concept. The service is not to allow or block services, but just domain names.

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  r1209876 December 22, 2020 14:07

  I've written the domain names, but the authentication for office and appstore fail when you block some sites.

   

   

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  rotblitz December 22, 2020 14:44

  Then don’t block the domains (not sites). Also “services” would be a collection of domain names, same as categories. A DNS service knows only about domains, not about any other objects like sites or services. And how many “services” would you expect to appear, 100, 1000?

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  r1209876 December 22, 2020 15:07

  I understand DNS - that's why it's a suggestion. I've blocked some sites because of my children but still need to be able to activate Word, Excel etc, unless I bypass opendns I can't do this.
  
  Identity management should be allowed through as a category or service (only if possible), saying all that you may still get stuck with MFA.

   

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  rotblitz December 22, 2020 15:13

  Yes, this feature exists and comes with the commercial service Umbrella. They will not release it for the free service.

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  r1209876 December 22, 2020 15:52

  What about paid family service?

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  rotblitz December 22, 2020 15:54

  OpenDNS VIP doesn’t come with this feature.

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  r1209876 December 22, 2020 15:57

  And that's my point, it should. I would pay for it as I need openDNS to protect my children but still need access to Office activation as part of my ability to install it on 5 devices.

   

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  rotblitz December 22, 2020 16:02

  Ok, you raised the idea, and now vote it up and hope that others vote on it. Votes is all what counts.

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  barneyd January 16, 2021 18:05

  Why not just whitelist the domains you want to unblock? That will allow them regardless of how many categories of block they are in.

  You are limited (to 30 I think) black/white list entries in the free service.

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