Home VIP - This is the only paid plan of these three, with a fee of $19.95 a year.

With that account you can view logs and reports of domains that are accessed and blocked. You need to create and account to use it.

Home - This plan is similar to Family Shield but adds the ability to configure which filters are enabled and the ability to ban and whitelist individual domains.

You also don’t need an account to use this plan, but without one you lose access to all logs and reports. You can’t configure the filters in this plan.

This primarily filters porn and proxy/anonymizing sites. Family Shield - This plan lets you use OpenDNS servers in their default filtering configuration.OpenDNS has three plans targeted at home users:

You can also choose specific domains to block or allow to enhance or override the OpenDNS standard filters. These filters include pornography, drugs, gaming, academic fraud, and many other categories. Using these categories, you can filter the servers that computers can connect to after setting your computers (or your router) to use OpenDNS. OpenDNS maintains a database that categorizes domain names. By default, they usually start with the DNS servers specified by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), but most devices allow you to change your DNS servers. DNS maps names to IP addresses to make services like websites much easier to remember.Ĭomputers that connect to the Internet use DNS servers to locate the sites and services they are connected to. Domain Name System, or DNS, is the system that assigns names to IP addresses. Configuring security and advanced featuresīefore I address what OpenDNS is, let’s briefly discuss what DNS is.

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