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Domain blocking: Blocking MySpace and Facebook

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    I have specifically blocked the myspace.com and facebook.com domains as well as the social networking catagory, yet the settings do not stick.

    It seems like they wear off and I have to reapply the settings once a week or once every two weeks.

    Is anyone else having this problem? These are the top two that I want to block. Will be doing this globally for 35 locations if this works right.
    • CommentAuthorMarc
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2008
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    Maybe you are behind a dynamic IP? If so, follow these steps:
    http://www.opendns.com/support/dynamic_ip/
    • CommentAuthorhonesy
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2008
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    Thanks for the idea but that was already ticked.
    Any others?
    • CommentAuthorhonesy
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2008
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    Do the stats tell you who (ip address or name) tried to access a site or is it something else im thinking bout lol..
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    no they don't tell you who accessed the site. just how many times.
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    Yes, I we are running Dynamic IP's, but I have setup the DynDns updater to work with OpenDNS.

    Things are getting blocked, but after I manually add the facebook.com and myspace.com domains onto the list, they block fine after flushing DNS, but they disappear altogether after a week or so and people can access them again. It's highly annoying, almost to the point where I'm thinking of ditching OpenDNS, but I've already wrapped up so much time and work into it...

    Could it have something to do with the Social Networking category clashing with the blocked individual domains?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
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    As you write "they disappear altogether after a week or so", do you mean they disappear within your OpenDNS settings from the individually blocked domains list? If so, no doubt, someone cracked the password of your OpenDNS account(s) and removes the entries from there...
    Thankful People: georgedela

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