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Preventing circumvention of OpenDNS with firewall rules
Hi, I am attempting to set up my FVS318Gv2 Firewall so it will block all DNS queries that are not from OpenDNS. I was using this article for reference. To do this, I created a list of out...
Mainly a stupid mistake of putting the IPs in the LAN space instead of the WAN space. Also it seems the rules should be the other way. Seems a bit backwards to the way things usually work.
Here are my final settings for future reference:
Hello joelphilippage,
Thank you for sharing your solution with us. I suggest editing the image you have posted since they are showing public IP addresses (assuming these are your WAN addresses). If you post your WAN address on the internet, you are taking a very big risk of exposing your network to anyone.
Thanks,
These are OpenDNSs Wan Addresses, not ours. Thanks for making sure.
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