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- CommentAuthorscamardometal
- CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
Okay, I'm new to OpenDNS, and so are the advanced blocking categories--and I'm finding the process rather confusing.
For one thing, there are two apparently independent lists in which a site is categorized. If I go to http://www.opendns.com/support/adult, Youtube.com is categorized as "adult themes". If I instead go to http://www.opendns.com/community/domaintagging, Youtube.com is listed as "video sharing" but NOT as "adult themes".
Similarly, searchlores.org (which showed up in my Blocked Domains stats) isn't even listed in community/domaintagging, even though OpenDNS blocks it as a proxy site. At first I didn't understand how it had been blocked at all.
But worse, the blocked domain page that my browser showed when I tried to open Youtube said it was classed as "adult themes"--but I wasn't blocking that category at all! I finally realized that Youtube was blocked because I had unintentionally blocked the "video sharing" category (as one of the "bandwidth hogs" group).
It would be very nice if there was ONE search that listed ALL the categories for a domain. It would be even nicer if the "blocked domain" page that appears in the user's browser listed the category that actually caused the site to be blocked. You'll save network administrators some gray hairs that way.
Thanks a ton!
(P.S. Add me to the list of users who'd like to be able to pull up a list of all the sites branded with a particular category.) -
Agreed. We've cleared up some of the confusion on the block page, and we're going to integrate things further, so there is one place to check a domain's classification. That place will be the domain detail page, where you add the domain to domain.opendns.com like this http://domain.opendns.com/youtube.com
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