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It still has the issue of where does the router store the data. Now if you only for example care about something like total traffic in certain period of time that you can get. If the government can't get it you are not going to be able to either

Edward Snowden pretty much caused all web traffic to become encrypted to prevent government spying. Tracking ip addresses does not help since many sites are virtualized and share with other servers.like this site.

At very best you will get the main site name but you have no way to tell what url they are accessing. Still this is all a complete waste of time to even attempt to accomplish. There are some third party firmware images that can do more and you can log to external servers from some. The problem with using a router is they have no place to store data. It takes kids 2 seconds to get past this. A couple years ago the most common suggestion from google on the search for opendns was the word bypass. If device IS in the exception list, hand second Pi-hole DNS that uses OpenDNS as upstream.Opendns is worthless as any form of real security. The only change it should require is adjusting the 'Host' in the outgoing request to be set to ' all. I would love to see one more checkbox that would 'Update All Services on DNS-O-Matic'.

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If the device is not in the exception list, hand only Pi-hole DNS. Currently, OpenDNS Updater v2.2.1 client can successfully send an update to DNS-O-Matic (if that option is checked on in settings). That way, Pi-hole1 handles the DHCP and based on device hand out DNS servers. You just have to make sure you update your OpenDNS IP automatically every time is changed (use ddclient on the pi for automation). OpenDNS automatically applies your filter/parental controls when the queries are originating from your defined IP (which should be your WAN IP), in your OpenDNS account, under Personal Networks. Now, there is one trick with OpenDNS that most don't know. You need to use Pi-hole #1 as your DHCP server that will serve itself as the DNS to all connecting clients EXCEPT the ones defined in a separate file (based on MAC) that will get the Pi-hole #2 which uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole #1 BUT the upstream servers are the OpenDNS servers. You must disable Netgear's DHCP server, never use the Parental Controls within netgear as that takes over everything you have setup locally. Something is probably off and is messing things up.įor your layout, in order to use a cascading setup, where some devices use Pi-hole, and some Pi-hole with OpenDNS, you'd have to bring in another Pi-hole instance (maybe a Zero-W?), one that you would assign to special devices via DHCP options at Pi-hole DHCP level. If I click on Update Now, the issue resolves.

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Learn how to setup OpenDNS.' Also, no IP address is shown it’s like the updater does not see that I am connected to the internet (which I am). If you do that and your DHCP settings are correct, you shouldn't have any issues with the clients connecting and pulling IPs or any routing problems. Over the past several days, the OpenDNS updater window pops up every 30 minutes or so with a message under the Using OpenDNS row stating 'No. One more thing, is under Pihole Admin, if I do use only the first configuration stated above, and activate pihole, which value am I supposed to insert into 'Local Domain Name' under conditional forwarding in the advance DNS settings?Īnd if I activate without the Parental Control OpenDNS, Pihole as my DHCP server and disable the one in the router, suddenly my networks devices can't connect to wifi any longer and I'm even prevented to access the admin of my Netgear Modem Router.Ĭan't really follow this one but i'm assuming you disable DHCP within the Netgear and enable it with Pi-hole. (Even if I reboot all routers and devices - it took me 2 hours to get back on track! even skeptical to touch that again! ) only the Admin interface of my Netgear extender remains accessible. and ads goes through on devices.Īnd if I activate without the Parental Control OpenDNS, Pihole as my DHCP server and disable the one in the router, suddenly my networks devices can't connect to wifi any longer and I'm even prevented to access the admin of my Netgear Modem Router.

the pihole DNS in the Netgear Modem Router is replaced by both OpenDNS DNS. while all of them will be filtered through pihole ad blocking.īut when I do use my OpenDns Account to Activate Parental control. So some devices in my network will have higher or lower filtering settings independently.

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