Make the wild internet safe for children.

Internet is a wild place indeed. It's wise to close all the paths to the wrong dens and caves, for the protection of our children. Then again some people may call this censorship, while the reality is quite the opposite. For those people arguing about censorship I like to say that there are ethical standards in every culture, tribe and community. For example would you call it censorship because we are wearing clothes?

Setting Up Filtering.
There is absolutely no need to buy and install parental control software, unless you specifically need to record and monitor what your kids or employees are up to. The solution to closing all the caves and dens you need to sign u for a FREE account at openDNS. They have a very user friendly documentation to setup their service.

For geeks it would suffice to say that you only need to configure your router / PC to use the following DNS servers.

Primary:               208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS:    208.67.220.220

You may also neet to filter all DNS traffic by using a firewall rule. For Dynamic IP addresses a light  weight tool is provided by openDNS to update your openDNS account with your currrent IP address which is needed by the openDNS server in order to apply the filters you specified in your account. By using openDNS you can filter access to all illegal websites.

 I did write about web filtering a while ago, but I thought I should refresh the article.

Go ahead and give it a try.