
To activate this is slightly more complex for the newbie, but gurus will find this a breeze.

Ok so you’ve set up OpenDNS and set all your filtering rules, checked the logs for anything you need to manually block, and dns is being forced, but what about SafeSearch? Kids can still google adult material and go to image search for illicit content (by accident or otherwise). Also, hide the icon so kids don’t start to google how to avoid it. HINT: Qustudio for Windows is pretty bullet proof too, if needs be set up a new device with a new email address as its only free for one device. Now, the clients themselves if android, use a mix of Google Family link (prevents temp profiles being set up to avoid content controls and gives pinpoint accuracy to location – great when the lad took a bespoke ‘day off’ and went into town!) and Qustudio (manages the content and gives live stats when kids are in the loo with their mobile!) Iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -dport 1080 -j DROP I also stuck in this line to the firewall to limit socks proxy circumventing Iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -p tcp -dport 53 -j DNAT -to $(nvram get lan_ipaddr) Iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i br0 -p udp -dport 53 -j DNAT -to $(nvram get lan_ipaddr) This forced open dns to be used in all cases, even if they tried to change their dns settings, there was also a line on the firewall to drop dns queries:


Support say ‘its not possible’ yet other DNS providers such as comodo and AdGuard do, albeit a blnket sledgehammer to all sites.Īs the kids moan to me, Dad I can only see babyish videos on youtube, but at the same time I don’t want unsafe googling or image searching (on incident of ‘poo poo’ being searched resulted in one shocked kid when a fetish site threw up an image!) I need a more granular solution.įirstly, Im glad Gargoyle forces DNS, this was a challenge for me on DD-WRT – I had to add the following lines to DNS MASQ to force the dns through: I notice there is no how-to for safesearch and parental control on gargoyle, nor is there an option for this with OpenDNS who supply this with their enterprise product but not their free tiers. Locking down Gargoyle for parental controls and Safesearch
