Here is a sample screenshot from the browser that we already blocked a website just for the demonstration purpose. Once you successfully go through these steps, you see the Open DNS servers start to block the websites that you entered on the Always Block list. Please be aware that the DNS cache clearing is not mandatory, the system clears the cache automatically after a while. If you have a different OS or PC that is not covered here, please see the complete list of commands to flush DNS here. For Linux computers, type the code sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart on Terminal. For Mac users, open the terminal and type dscacheutil -flushcache. To get the immediate effect of this website blocking, you have to flush DNS on the PCs connected to the network.įor Windows users, type ipconfig /flushdns in the DOS window. Once you add this website to the block list, your PCs may still allow these websites for a while from the cache. Finally, you have to save those settings and quit from the Open DNS dashboard. Here you can add individual websites that you want to block. You have a drop-down option to select Always Block or Never Block to add websites. This would be the most interesting part for us to get more granular control on a website that can block from reaching your Home Router. Now scroll down to the Settings page to get the option for Manage Individual Domains. You don’t have much control here other than just selecting the level of block. You can choose the level of blocking from High/Moderate/Low/Custom. This website content filtering option is to block Adult websites from your network. Make sure to select the “Settings for: Home Network” before selecting the Web Content Filtering.
Once you set up the network successfully on OpenDNS, then you can see the above screen under settings to chose the web filtering level. (We recommend to install this tool on your Desktop machine that kept on most of the time).
This software tool will update the home IP address with the OpenDNS account whenever your ISP provider changes the Intenet IP address. You have to install this tool on PC to proceed further. Open DNS will offer the link to download the tool to your Mac or Windows machine. If you have a dynamic IP, you have to check the box stating that “Yes, it is dynamic.” Open DNS is providing a software tool for Mac and Windows users who have a dynamic IP address. In that case, the IP address will change after a certain period. Some of the providers are giving dynamic IP for home WiFi. The static IP address is depending on your ISP provider.
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