DNS System with Filtering

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sun Jul 6 23:41:30 UTC 2008


In article <g4rjkt$206c$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Beyza <anlamarama at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know how the opendns handles filtering system.

They don't use BIND, I think they wrote a custom DNS server to implement 
all their fancy options.

> I would like to setup a DNS server which will have filtering system
> like OpenDNS. It will have different configuration for different IPs.
> For example, I will filter some websites for some IPs, those IPs will
> see a forbidden page. This is very simple for proxy but I just want to
> use DNS. Is there any module or software for this? OpenDNS has this
> system but I could not figure out how they do.

The only feature BIND has for giving different answers to different 
clients is views, but they're probably much too coarse for what you want 
to do.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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