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    Does the games category only block websites or does it also block connections to online game servers (E.g. playing Call of Duty online)?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2009 edited
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    DNS is not about the web (HTTP/HTTPS) only, it is about everything having to do with name resolution to IP addresses.

    Also, a category itself does not block anything, you must block this category explicitly in your dashboard settings, so this blocking is valid only in YOUR network.

    If you know the domain name(s) for e.g. "Call of Duty", then you can check at http://www.opendns.com/support/checker/ if that domain is in any category and which ones, else you may tag it to get it added.

    Edit: I checked for callofduty.com, and this is tagged in the games category.
    http://domain.opendns.com/callofduty.com
    So any application trying to access callofduty.com will be blocked, if you have selected the category games in your dashboard.

    Another edit: I made a strange observation.
    Although gameoftheyear.callofduty.com is tagged as games, one can still vote... :confused:
    http://domain.opendns.com/gameoftheyear.callofduty.com
    Same is for stats.callofduty.com and codwwcollector.callofduty.com :confused:
    http://domain.opendns.com/stats.callofduty.com
    http://domain.opendns.com/codwwcollector.callofduty.com
    Why is this?
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    A list of COD gameservers, if that is what you are looking for.
    http://www.gametracker.com/search/cod/

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