After reading a post by DJ Chaung from digital.leadnet.org I was skeptical about a free internet content filtering system that was praised. Well, after a few weeks of test driving it myself, I wanted to share it with you. I believe every church needs to get hooked up with OpenDNS.com. OpenDNS provides a powerful off-site filtering system that can clean up your home or church network. The many features can be found here. To name just a few, OpenDNS blocks pornography, nudity, and a variety of other adult sites. If you want to block certain sites like MySpace.com you can by entering each domain. (Our school kids were constantly on social networks instead of doing their virtual classes, so I blocked them all!) Also, you can upload your own logo that appears each time a page is blocked.
The most beautiful part of this is you get statistics and reports. At a click you can see how much traffic your network is producing, what sites people are going to, how many times your blocked sites were hit, and a variety of other features. I highly recommend this software to anyone who wants some accountability. It’s totally free for the public. There is no installation, all you do is add a setting to your router. Within an hour you are up and running. Here are some screen shots I took from my account.
