Jul 10, 2017 · OpenDNS gives you a relatively barebones approach to parental controls – filtering and logging – but that may be enough for many families. When combined with other methods, other parental controls methods for example, it can really wrap your network in a tight protective cocoon.
r7000 netgear genie openDNS parental controls not working new setup of an r7000 I've installed netgear genie, downloaded newest firmware, created an openDNS account and set the parental controls to high. It seems to have no filtering effect on social media, porn or anything else. what the heck am I doing wrong, as my user name suggests I'm not really good at this. Use OpenDNS Note: if you have not changed the original settings, the default username is admin and the password is blank (nothing). Click on the Manual Internet Connection Setup button at the bottom. Enter the OpenDNS addresses, 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, in Primary DNS Server and Secondary DNS Server fields. Click Save Settings button at the top.
Re: Parent control not working (not blocking anything) Thanks for the reply Dexter. I couldn't find the blacklist/whitelist option (UI completely changed from what I'm used to) but just as I was responding I decided to click around the netgear opendns site more aggressively and I finally found it!
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As I mentioned, disabling DNSSEC when using OpenDNS servers "kind of" fixed the issue, because while addresses on the Internet were able to be resolved and the OpenDNS welcome / test page did function as expected, the web filtering services still did not work - most likely for the reasons you mentioned in your post.
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