OT: Blocking Sites

[Mark Phillips]

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
http://parental-software-review.toptenreviews.com/.

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.

Good luck!!

Mark

Mark

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> That makes sure the game wont connect, and you dont need the IP address of
> every game server that is out there.
> On Jul 7, 2015 1:47 PM, "AZ Pete" <plug at cactusfamily.com> wrote:
>
>>  All,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Free/Open Source would be best, but I'll be willing to pay if the price
>> is right.
>>
>> I'm at my wits end with this game addition (and yes it's an addiction)
>> and need a solution.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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