Time and again, it must have happened with you that you wish to block web sites under certain niche at your business / work place / home / institution. You may want to do this because of competitive environment of the corporate world or preventing your kids from accessing time-wasters like social networking web sites, video sharing web sites.. or your employees from accessing job searching sites that would affect your business strategy.. What if your competitor hires up your employees for a bit more of money….
It’s very true that you always want to block certain sites at your campus and you may find yourself to be helpless at this.
People have become smart.. Now your silly C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts trick will not work.. Do not forget that GOOGLE Chrome has DNS prefetch.
What if they have some alternate DNS Server other than your normal ISP provider..
After reading this post, you will be able to block websites of a particular niche with a SINGLE click on all of your networks.
In such a tragedy, OpenDNS comes to rescue you. 
You can also customize the messages that will be displayed in case a web site is not found or is blocked.
True spirit of corporate lies in exclusive branding and OpenDNS will definitely help you with branding of your custom internet error pages.
Mac : Download Mac Client
Linux : Download DDClient
Once you download “OpenDNS Updater”, you will have to sign in using your OpenDNS login credentials and then add your current PC to one of your “named” networks..
Now, you are ready with all sorts of filters for annoying web sites. :O…
ALL THE BEST!
NOTE: You can also add selective URLs in case it is not submitted to a niche in OpenDNS register.
Enjoy your SAFE surfing.
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2 Comments
Associated Group on May 8, 2011 at 11:48 am.
This will help my company to block social networking sites at official campus…
Thanks
Rahul Gupta on May 8, 2011 at 11:49 am.
I am happy that I can stop my employers from visiting job search sites.. :O
Hurray!