Re: content filtering at home

[Paul Lepkowski <peliso () RIT EDU>]

OpenDNS also has a FamilyShield offering for free.  By simply pointing to specific DNS servers, it will block queries 
for many adult websites and known malware sites.  It's very easy to setup as there is no configuration other than to 
change your DNS settings.  Additional details are available from http://www.opendns.com/familyshield.

Paul


Paul Lepkowski, CISSP, GIAC-GPEN
RIT Information Security Office
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-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Randall 
C Grimshaw
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:13 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] content filtering at home

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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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Shalla 
[kshalla () UIC EDU]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:56 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
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?