Re: content filtering at home

[Randall C Grimshaw <rgrimsha () SYR EDU>]

What works for me is a combination of Gargoyle-router.org and openDNS.com
for relatively little expense, openDNS content filtering can be customized to your needs - and it works.
Gargoyle-router.org is along the lines of DD-wrt and openWRT firmware replacements but you can buy preconfigured 
devices also. The key features here are DNS re-writing so that all DNS queries are sent to openDNS. With Gargoyle you 
also get a very effective firewall with rate limiting and functional scheduling, bandwidth assignments, etc... 
DynamicDNS updating keeps openDNS informed of address association changes.

Randall Grimshaw rgrimsha () syr edu
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Subject: [SECURITY] content filtering at home

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?