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Creating CNAME Using Orbi to Enforce Google.com SafeSearch
I saw a couple older posts from 2017/2018 saying the following was not possible. Is it still impossible, using Orbi, to force all devices on my home network to go to forcesafesearch.google.com? ...
My sense is that nothing has changed about the way Orbi routers process DNS. There is no method for the user to create DNS definitions for devices on the LAN or to create a CNAME entry.
All the user can do is specify which DNS services the Orbi will forward DNS queries to. OpenDNS, for example, has a "free" feature which allows users to specify search criteria. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
Modern web browsers have settings to regulate content.
Some Orbi owners report implementing Pi-hole (or pfSense) servers to handle DNS. Both of these are capable of creating the DNS entries described in those articles. The Orbi DNS is pointed to Pi-hole to resolve DNS and Pi-hole takes it from there.
The key in all this is that any user can simply modify the network settings on any specific device to use whatever DNS service they want. And thus by-pass these controls.