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Hi everyone, I am hoping for some help with a potential serious issue for me. I run an Amazon business on my home property and we recently renovated our guest house and are booking up AirBnb re...
Hello! How about if you enable Live Parental Control OpenDNS?
When you enable Parental Control, add Amazon.com under Blacklist.
Once you have enabled Parental Control, no one should be able to connect through Amazon either on PC's or mobile/tablet devices.
Sample on Android
Sample on iPhone
Sample on Windows Phone
When I connect to amazon, it https, which is hard to block. Do an nslookup amazon.com (or, wherever you are) and try blocking by IP address. You will need to block all the ips that are returned. Not sure if your router supports this.
EDIT: You could also try / include keyword blocking amazon, if your router supports keyword blocking.
I added all the keywords to the blocked keyword list, and then I added the IP addresses I pulled to the blocked keyword list, but I couldn't find anywhere to specifically block by IP??
Either way, its still allowing access to the site.
Try a rebooting your router. Then retry your keyword blocking..
Worst case, you may need to do a router upgrade. Perhpas one of the R Series router, support blocking by IP. As I mentioned, HTTPS sites are hard to block. Perhaps ElaineM may be able to advise, which router / firmware. may work for your situation.
Hello! How about if you enable Live Parental Control OpenDNS?
When you enable Parental Control, add Amazon.com under Blacklist.
Once you have enabled Parental Control, no one should be able to connect through Amazon either on PC's or mobile/tablet devices.
Sample on Android
Sample on iPhone
Sample on Windows Phone
Hi Elaine,
Where do I access that page to add those to the blacklist? I downloaded the Netgear Genie app and it had me log into Open DNS via the app, but there is no option from within the app to add it to a blacklist?