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max50

I've read through post after post, but I am unable to get blocking to work on a Windows 10 laptop. I've added both ipv4 and ipv6 to my ethernet and wifi adapters. I get the green checkmark when testing. I'm not using lite mode. I've tried enabling dns over https in chrome. I've tried in Edge as well, but nothing gets blocked. Any help is appreciated.

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    falcondot1

    Same here. OpenDNS Updater shows no IP address of my computer. Can that be a problem?
    Thank you

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    rotblitz

    @max50
    Do you have IPv6 connectivity and did not configure OpenDNS for IPv6?

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    max50

     I've added both IPv4 and IPv6 to my ethernet and wifi adapters. Is there other configuration for IPv6 that needs to be done? Thanks.

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    rotblitz

    See https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360075786491-Web-Content-Filtering-is-not-working

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    max50

    So use

    • ::ffff:d043:dede
    • ::ffff:d043:dcdc

    Instead of

    • 2620:119:35::35
    • 2620:119:53::53

    ?

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    rotblitz

    Yes. As documented, the 2620 addresses do not regard your dashboard settings.

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    max50

    I updated to the new IPv6 addresses, flushed the dns, but it's still not blocking anything.

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    rotblitz

    Copy & paste the complete plain text output of the following diagnostic commands to here.

    nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
    nslookup -type=txt which.opendns.com. 208.67.222.222
    nslookup whoami.akamai.net.

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    max50

    1 - Server: UnKnown, Address: 208.67.222.222, *** UnKnown can't find debug.opendns.com: No response from server

    2 - Server: resolver1.opendns.com, Address: 208.67.222.222, Non-authoritative answer: which.opendns.com text="r2.atl1"

    3 - Server: UnKnown, Address: 208.67.222.222, *** UnKnown can't find whoami.akamai.net: No response from server

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    rotblitz

    Something blocks your DNS queries from going out to OpenDNS. No idea what.

    Try with disabling IPv6 altogether.

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    max50

    That changed the results of 1 & 3, but it's still not blocking.

    1 -

    Server: resolver1.opendns.com
    Address: 208.67.222.222

    Non-authoritative answer:
    debug.opendns.com text =

    "server r8.atl1"
    debug.opendns.com text =

    "flags 40020 0 70 180000000000000000007950800000000000000"
    debug.opendns.com text =

    "originid 0"
    debug.opendns.com text =

    "actype 0"
    debug.opendns.com text =

    "source 98.183.45.200:60329"

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    Server: resolver1.opendns.com
    Address: 208.67.222.222

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: whoami.akamai.net
    Addresses: 2a04:e4c0:24::69
    146.112.137.65

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    rotblitz

    Your IP address is not registered at your dashboard.

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    max50

    Updated my public IP with opendns, but it's still not working. I thought that was going to work! Reran the first command and the only thing changed is the final port number: source 98.183.45.200:58413

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    rotblitz

    Originid and actype should be non-zero now. Post a screen shot of https://dashboard.opendns.com/settings/

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    max50

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    rotblitz

    This looks good. Try with flushing your two local caches.
    https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227988627-How-to-clear-the-DNS-Cache-

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    max50

    Clearing the browser cache finally did it! Thank you so much for all the help. Have a great New Year!

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    rotblitz

    Excellent! Thank you, and you too.

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