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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DGL-4500 => Topic started by: ARand on April 15, 2009, 09:05:13 AM
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To DLINK: I would like to suggest that the Web Site Filtering be enhanced to handle wild cards, such as *.gov (blocking all government domains), or *.cn (blocking all domains from China), or whatever root domains you want to choose.
While it may seem minor, blocking root domains for places that you never plan to visit (mainly because you cannot speak the language) is a fine security feature, especially when dealing with Malware or Spyware that may be trying to communicate with someone in a distant country.
While you are reading, how about also making the DGL 4500 hardware display remain lit full-time, instead of switching off after a few seconds of display?
Thx!
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OLED's are NOT meant to be on full time. That would cause the color to fade really really fast. And then once it's gone, no more! Not a very smart idea...sorry.
Web Site filtering is okay. Although, if I want something blocked, I go and do it through the DNS servers. I do like your idea though.
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For website filtering, you should check out OpenDNS.com
To use it, just enter the OpenDNS entries in the DNS field of your Router, then open a free account and you'll be able to block domains by category and by domain.
On this page, you'll find a useful list of 25 domains to be blocked and an explanation of why.
http://www.apluswebmaster.net/blocklist.html
Using Open DNS, along with category blocking, you get up to 50 separate domain entries for blocking.
As for the display, D-Link would need to use an LCD display on a newer model for it to be left on all the time.
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I will look into OpenDNS.com, for sure. Thanks for the good idea. I would still like to see my little router able to use wild cards, however. I already block over 80,000 domains with my HOSTS file, but I find that I cannot block an entire country this way, as I could with a wild card. :)
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Well, if you are looking to block a lot of websites like that, the DGL series routers aren't for you. Enterprise routers and switches are the way to go here.
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Well, if you are looking to block a lot of websites like that, the DGL series routers aren't for you. Enterprise routers and switches are the way to go here.
My post is a feature request to DLINK concerning the DGL-4500.
Since there is only 1 top level domain per country, allowing something like *.AR would block the entire country of Argentina, for example. It is not hard to do programatically, and would not require a lot of resources, either.