Opendns

[Rick]

We have a small shop, 200 XP users, Windows 2003 AD, two DC\DNS
servers. We are looking at using OpenDNS as a filtering solution and
I'm told to setup the AD DNS forwarders to the OpenDNS servers, that's
not a problem. What we want to do is have no filtering for our
Administration staff and I'm not sure how I can have some users
filtered and some not, if this is possible at all with OpenDNS. Any
Ideas?

thanks
Rick.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

We have a small shop, 200 XP users, Windows 2003 AD, two DC\DNS
servers. We are looking at using OpenDNS as a filtering solution and
I'm told to setup the AD DNS forwarders to the OpenDNS servers, that's
not a problem. What we want to do is have no filtering for our
Administration staff and I'm not sure how I can have some users
filtered and some not, if this is possible at all with OpenDNS. Any
Ideas?

thanks
Rick.

DNS is not a proper way to filter, you need a proxy server, which will do
exactly what you want.


--
--
Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps

===================================
When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group"
via your newsreader so that others may learn and
benefit from your issue, to respond directly to
me remove the nospam. from my email address.
===================================
http://www.lonestaramerica.com/
http://support.wftx.us/
http://message.wftx.us/
===================================
Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix:
It will strip signature out and more
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
===================================
Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders
with OEBackup:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
===================================

 

[Rick]

Your saying a Proxy server with a 3rd party app like Websense?

Rick

 

[Mike G]

While opendns is not a comprehensive filtering solution it is a good free
alternative and I use it as a first layer. I do not know of any way to set
up different user group filtering options. You can have different filtering
options for different networks so if you ran two internal dns servers you
could assign users to specific dns servers and have different filtering
options on each. This is what I do. You could also perhaps use group policy
to assign dns server settings by user group and route one group to opendns
servers and another group to non-opendns servers.

 

[Rick]

While opendns is not a comprehensive filtering solution it is a good free
alternative and I use it as a first layer. I do not know of any way to set
up different  user group filtering options. You can have different filtering
options for different networks so if you ran two internal dns servers you
could assign users to specific dns servers and have different filtering
options on each. This is what I do. You could also perhaps use group policy
to assign dns server settings by user group and route one group to opendns
servers and another group to non-opendns servers.

Thank you very much for the response.

Rick.