Re: How to block certain web sites with m0n0wall

Hi,
Would a solution help if the DNS request form the CP being answered from OpenDNS. The DNS form the LAN would go to another DNS Server?

Jakob 

> The thing is that I need some of m0n0wall features such as captive portal, but It would also be good to have domain blocking feature. I know some mikrotik firewall has it, but it would be a waste to drop m0n0wall since it is already working just fine. I just need that one small feature.
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> I also ran some tests and it seemed that DNS forwarding in m0n0wall can be used to trick all the internal computers to go to fake IP when requesting certain websites. Please confirm me whether I am right or wrong.
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> I set the DNS Forwarding for playboy.com to 255.255.255.255 and tried to go there and the page just looping infinitely with nothing to show.
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> Thank you
> Rendra
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Barber
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:26 PM
> To: Jakob Strebel
> Cc: [email protected]; Gold Dragon Inc
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] How to block certain web sites with m0n0wall
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> OpenDNS (www.opendns.org) is very good, with different levels of website/web content filtering. Alot easier than trying to do it in m0n0wall...or any other firewall for that matter.
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> On 20 March 2013 08:20, Jakob Strebel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try to use Open DNS
> Jakob