takitezsdc
Occasional Visitor
HELP please? The problem is this....ok so you all know that merlin / asus router has DNS settings and for example I have OPENDNS as my dns provider. You set the DNS in router in the WAN section to point the router by putting in Opendns DNS numbers in WAN>Internet connection>Wan DNS Setting>DNS 1 and DNS 2.
So then in AIProtection >Parental Controls>DNS filtering you turn it on and i put the Global filtering to ROUTER.
So if the above is correct and in Merlins info on Global Filtering it says it forces DNS settings to all devices. SO if that is true...WHY and HOW can my kids use a VPN to circumvent this ? I mean it still coming from my network......so why does it bypass the DNS settings and allow them to use another dns? So why is it letting them bybass my dns settings ?
Also why cant we set the router up to NOT keep handing out different ip address ? I mean.....if i set up my DHCP range from 50- to 75.......then i would have 25 DHCP addresses to auto hand out .......and if i am using 24 of them for devices on my network that would leave 1. SO why cant there be a way to hand out X number of ip address on our network and BLOCK all the rest of the IP addresses? Or BIND the device to the IP that was given out......so they can not change the IP?
I must be missing something, because my idea above would solve all the parental issues it seems that people are having with kids and unwanted users . Then if u handed " Billy" a ip of 192.168.1.67 for his iphone......he could not change the IP because all the IPs would be blocked or used by other devices.......and then we are left with the DNS issues which stump me, because i dont understand if i have my router set to force all devices to use my DNS settings.....WHY its allowing VPN connections to use whatever dns they want is beyond my tech knowledge..........sigh any help?
So then in AIProtection >Parental Controls>DNS filtering you turn it on and i put the Global filtering to ROUTER.
So if the above is correct and in Merlins info on Global Filtering it says it forces DNS settings to all devices. SO if that is true...WHY and HOW can my kids use a VPN to circumvent this ? I mean it still coming from my network......so why does it bypass the DNS settings and allow them to use another dns? So why is it letting them bybass my dns settings ?
Also why cant we set the router up to NOT keep handing out different ip address ? I mean.....if i set up my DHCP range from 50- to 75.......then i would have 25 DHCP addresses to auto hand out .......and if i am using 24 of them for devices on my network that would leave 1. SO why cant there be a way to hand out X number of ip address on our network and BLOCK all the rest of the IP addresses? Or BIND the device to the IP that was given out......so they can not change the IP?
I must be missing something, because my idea above would solve all the parental issues it seems that people are having with kids and unwanted users . Then if u handed " Billy" a ip of 192.168.1.67 for his iphone......he could not change the IP because all the IPs would be blocked or used by other devices.......and then we are left with the DNS issues which stump me, because i dont understand if i have my router set to force all devices to use my DNS settings.....WHY its allowing VPN connections to use whatever dns they want is beyond my tech knowledge..........sigh any help?