<div dir="ltr"><div>There are windows based programs that can be installed on a windows box that will do the blocking for you. They also have some nifty features to control access based on the time of day to gaming sites. So, you could give your kids an hour of gaming from say 8-9 at night, and prevent all gaming the rest of the day. They also have features like emailing you a list of urls your kids have used, how much time on each url, etc. Take a look at <a href="http://parental-software-review.toptenreviews.com/">http://parental-software-review.toptenreviews.com/</a>.<br><br></div><div>The last I looked at this stuff....my youngest is 18 now....was when Windows has some controls, but all the defeats were common knowledge in middle school, so it really required a paid application and strong admin password to keep the computer savvy players from defeating the programs.<br><br></div><div>Good luck!!<br><br></div><div>Mark<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Bob Elzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Find out what games they are playing, then lookup those games and find out what ports they use to communicate, then just block those port with the router.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That makes sure the game wont connect, and you dont need the IP address of every game server that is out there.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jul 7, 2015 1:47 PM, "AZ Pete" <<a href="mailto:plug@cactusfamily.com" target="_blank">plug@cactusfamily.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p>All,</p>
<p>I have two boys who's video gaming on their laptops is out of
control. If me or my wife aren't *constantly* looking over their
shoulders, they will be playing games. And they are savvy enough
to have their educational lessons open in one tab and games in
another and alt-tab away from the game when we are walking past.</p>
<p>I need a solution that will block their game sites, while still
allowing access to all the other sites that are needed for school,
lessons, research etc.</p>
<p>Is there some method I can block DNS requests to certain domains,
while keeping others active for only their computers? I want
something *very easy* to set up and maintain that runs on Windows
(all computers in my home network are Win based). I have a Windows
file server I could load some kind of proxy software on and have
the kids computers hit the proxy to resolve DNS calls. But again,
I don't want to screw around with complex proxy servers, "net
nanny" based software, etc. Also, simply editing their hosts file
isn't terribly realistic either.</p>
<p>Basically, I want a solution where I can easily enter a domain to
be blocked (or removed for access) for only their PCs, without
having to sink hours and hours into
learning/configuring/maintaining some complex software solution.
I'd also rather not have to load some kind of net-nanny software
onto each of their computers (which would be a pain to constantly
have to maintain the block list on each machine).</p>
<p>Free/Open Source would be best, but I'll be willing to pay if the
price is right.</p>
<p>I'm at my wits end with this game addition (and yes it's an
addiction) and need a solution. </p>
<p>Any thoughts would be most appreciated.</p>
<p>Peter</p>
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