[OPLINTECH] OpenDNS for content filtering

[Brad Stephens]

We've been using OpenDNS for well over a year in Salem and find it to be
very effective for our needs.  Policy grouping seems to be very good since
we only get 1-2 unblock requests a month at most.

Brad



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dan Will <willda at oplin.org> wrote:

> Hi Greg/Don,
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>    We aren’t using it at the library but, I have played with it personally.
> The personal OpenDNS seems to work pretty well. It has lots of reports that
> you can run and the blocking can be tweaked heavily.
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> If we end up having to filter… OpenDNS would be my recommendation.
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> Dan Will
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> Meigs County District Public Library
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> *From:* oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:
> oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] *On Behalf Of *Greg Ramage
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:02 PM
> *To:* oplintech at oplin.org
> *Subject:* [OPLINTECH] OpenDNS for content filtering
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> Good afternoon,
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> Is anyone using OpenDNS, particularly the Enterprise version, for content
> filtering at your library?  If so I'd like to hear your experiences with
> it.  We're currently using St. Bernard iPrism appliances that will soon be
> unsupported and need to be replaced.  Based on past conversations on this
> list I'm also looking at DansGuardian and several other appliances.
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> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Greg Ramage
> IT Manager
> Upper Arlington Public Library
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