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IPv6 Bug In R7000 Live Parental Controls with OpenDNS
Hi Folks,
I noticed recently that OpenDNS Live Parental Controls stopped working. I discovered that it is because my ISP has launched native IPv6 support. OpenDSN says to configure the IPv6 DNS r...
Is it R7000 or C7000?
If R7000, it is in wrong forum.
also, OpenDNS IPv6 addresses seems wrong.
https://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/ipv6/
Hi
It is the R7000. I will try to see how to select the right forum.
The OpenDNS addresses you pointed to:
2620:0:ccc::2
2620:0:ccd::2
Are the "sandbox" addresses and they do not support filtering. You have to enter the IPV4 equivelent addresses I provided to get filtering with IPV6
I believe sandbox are the ones supporting filtering.
I hope you are not trying to "convert" ipv4 to Ipv6. that wont work.
Hi vkdelta,
Unfortunately, the sandbox does not support filtering. I've spent the day on the OpenDNS forums and they all instruct users to go to point their IPv6 DNS server to the IPv4 address (in IPv6) notation I outlined in my initial post. The bug is that the router will not allow any IPv6 addresses with leading zeros.An example of the direction from OpenDNS: