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Re: content filtering at home

From: Roderick Cook <rcook () PACIFIC EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:30:52 -0700

I've used OpenDNS for my home network to filter sites based upon DNS
categories with some success.  Of course my teenager isn't all that
technically astute to bypass the DNS server settings.

Roderick Cook


On 3/21/11 2:56 PM, "Kevin Shalla" <kshalla () UIC EDU> wrote:

Does anyone have any advice regarding doing content filtering at home?
I have a 2-wire home router, and all the ISP offers is their parental
controls that run individually on each computer.  The problem is that we
have other devices for which this won't work (i-pod, xbox, wii).  One
suggestion is OpenDNS, but it's not clear to me how that would work for
these other devices.  Does anyone have suggestions?

Current thread:

content filtering at home Kevin Shalla (Mar 21)
- Re: content filtering at home Karl Bernard (Mar 21)
  - Re: content filtering at home Jamie A. Stapleton (Mar 30)
    - Re: content filtering at home Bracey, John (Mar 30)
- Re: content filtering at home Roderick Cook (Mar 21)
- Re: content filtering at home Doug Robinson (Mar 21)
- Re: content filtering at home Steven Blanc (Mar 22)
  - Re: content filtering at home Dave Inman (Mar 22)
  - Re: content filtering at home Eric C. Lukens (Mar 22)
    - Re: content filtering at home Kevin Wilcox (Mar 22)
- Re: content filtering at home Pettis, Frederick (Mar 22)
- Re: content filtering at home Randall C Grimshaw (Mar 22)
  - Re: content filtering at home Paul Lepkowski (Mar 22)