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New RBR750 / RBS750 Firmware Version 4.6.3.16 Released
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I use OpenDNS, just blocked up.netgear.com so it won't transact unless I allow it. Very simple to do in their user interface since I block/unblock domains for the kiddo's often.
alphanstein wrote:I use OpenDNS, just blocked up.netgear.com so it won't transact unless I allow it. Very simple to do in their user interface since I block/unblock domains for the kiddo's often.
I've used OpenDNS in the past, and it's quite good, if not just a tad slower than other DNS servers - and a simple basic consumer account (that includes blocking) is completely free.
But I THINK I've read in a post that it didn't work for someone tried blocking updates through such a service, and it didn't work - it's part of one of these crazy threads about NG's incompetence.
I THINK the poster found that although the URL was http, it was actually coming through https (which usually isn't blocked).
BUT, I remember at the time of reading it, I questioned in my head if the poster cleared the router's cache before coming to the conclusion because it didn't seem like so, but the post was fairly short without such detail. If the the IP was not cleared from the cache, the router would not have gone out for the DNS resolution, and would have just used the IP in the cache.