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July 20, 2009 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials
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How to block adult sites and contents automatically from your children? Which is the best child internet filter for my computer? The best parental internet filter is none other than the Open Source DNS web content filter.

Have you heard of the OpenDNS community? It is a open source community dedicating to make the web safer, better and faster for everyone. By using their DNS settings, parents are able to filter out unwanted contents, such as porn, virus, hacking and cracking websites, not to mention torrent.

OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies.

Hardware Internet Filter For Router

To set up this free hardware internet filter, all you have to do is set the DNS addresses in your router to OpenDNS settings. Login to your router’s setting page (usually the router’s IP address is http://192.168.0.1), type in OpenDNS addresses in Primary DNS Address and Secondary DNS Address fields.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Hardware Internet Filter For Linux And Mac Web Traffic

Internet Filter For Mac and Linux

For Apple Mac OS X user, follow the step by step tutorial as shown in the screenshot below. As for Linux user, go to the network settings and perform the same task by change the required DNS address to OpenDNS settings.