[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

[Pete Hardie]

Yeah, but if she gets that far, she'll be learning enough to counter the
time-wasting

Pete Hardie
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Better Living Through Bitmaps


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>wrote:

> Just keep in mind this would be fairly easy for her (or her tech-savvy
> friends you mentioned) to get around. She just needs to set her network
> settings to use a public DNS like 8.8.8.8 instead of whatever DHCP hands
> out. DHCP is more of a suggestion. You may be able to block outbound DNS
> queries from all but your router to thwart that.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>
> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:27:05 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?
>
>
> A followup, for those interested in the results
>
> I think that I have found a working configuration.  I currently have dhcpd
> running, supplying a few fixed IPs for my DVRs, and pointing them at my
> WIRNS server for replacement guide data, and I was able to set up another
> MAC-specific stanza to point
> my Nook to use my desktop as its DNS, which is handled by dnsmasq.  I set
> up dnsmasq to map reddit.com to 127.0.0.1 and it appears to do what I
> want - fail to load that site.
>
> I could use dnsmasq to supply the DHCP, and may switch to that once I feel
> that everything else is working totally to my satisfaction
>
> Thanks again to all for the suggestions and war stories about blocking
> your kids' access!
>
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> >> Thanks - I'll take a closer look and see if I can wrap my head around
>> >it.
>> >> and to the list - I think that dnsmasq will do what I want, since it
>> >allows specification of a DNS server for the DHCP clients, and can be
>> >configured to not
>> >> be the DNS server for the host, leaving it to use the router and ISP
>> >servers.
>> >
>> >A friend of mine with various ages of children has chosen to
>> >incrementally
>> >make internet access harder and harder. The two eldest children have
>> >developed some serious network hacking skills as a result. His devious
>> >goal was less about restricting access to online materials and
>> >activities
>> >and more about learning how things worked.
>> >
>> >His most recent step was physically unplugging at around 9-10pm
>> >(time for bed),,.  and his 14 year old boy discovered "pringles can"
>> >antenna technologies as a result.
>> >
>> >The bad news, and why I know.. is he got enough signal to leach from my
>> >
>> >house.. where he got sniffed and monitored. I'm not exactly next door,
>> >but
>> >I am line of sight..
>> >
>>
>> No one leaches my wifi since it's encrypted.  They could sniff it, but
>> they'd get gibberish.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
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