secondary resource for our SonicWall-based content filter. Between
the two, our content/access filtering is well taken care of.
OpenDNS doesn't offer mechanics for time nor user-based filtering,
however, might it be an idea to look into a network switch that
handles time management? When I worked at a boarding school, the
Sonicwall 2040 had this built in to the 24 port switch. Possible that
your switching environment might offer this functionality.
For user scheduling, if you're using Active Directory, it's possible
restrict users access to the network at scheduled times.
Regards,
Kory
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM, TJ Rainsford<tjrainsford@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would second Matthew's comments about OpenDNS. =A0It is proven quite
> useful in some academic/non profit environments I have worked with
> where content filtering is cost prohibitive or not mission required.
>
> TJ
>
> On 6/9/09, Matthew Datcher <mdatcher@designdata.com> wrote:
>> Renee,
>>
>> A cheap solution would be to use OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) on
>> your network. I've used this with great success at a few of my clients
>> plus I use it at home. You simply need to configure your internal DNS
>> servers to use OpenDNS as forwarders and then you can configure an
>> account to set up the filtering.
>>
>> However, I have not seen anything for time-based filtering. Nor is there
>> a provision for user-based filtering. The biggest thing I like about
>> OpenDNS is that it helps prevent phishing attacks.
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