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@casino Our team is looking into this. Will update in a couple of days.

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@Casino Proxy sites fetch pages on the requestor’s behalf from their servers, then send the pages as if they come from the proxy sites themselves. To the router, there’s no difference between a proxy site that fetches content from other sites and a real site that serves content on its own.

Is there a reason OpenDNS does’t work for you?

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Yahoo does not support safe search over HTTPS, so safe search only works for HTTP. You can disable Yahoo search over HTTPS by entering https://search.yahoo.com in the “Blocked URLs” box. Or, simply block all Yahoo search by entering search.yahoo.com. This does not affect other Yahoo services such as Yahoo mail or Yahoo finance.

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Google video search should be covered by enabling “Safe Search” on the profile. Yahoo does not support safe search over HTTPS, so safe search only works for HTTP. You can disable Yahoo search over HTTPS by entering https://search.yahoo.com in the “Blocked URLs” box. Or, simply block all Yahoo search by entering search.yahoo.com. This does not affect other Yahoo services such as Yahoo mail or Yahoo finance.

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The router relies on DNS services like OpenDNS to block proxy sites. When you check “Block Proxy” in access control, the router blocks HTTP requests sent through a proxy (i.e., when the user has set up to use a proxy server in their browser Connection option), which is a technique DNS services do not block.

As far as we know, the best protection against proxy sites is OpenDNS.

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Yes. Just enter “net” or “info” in the Blocked URLs box. If you prefer, you can enter “.net” or “.info” instead.

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@casino Can you provide more details about the UDP behavior? I.e., what you were trying to achieve and what was happening?

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@abe Please reset the router again. When you connect to the router and load the management page, it will ask you to do initial setup again. After initial setup, you can restore configuration – but select to restore “Access Control” portion only. You’ll need to manually change settings like WiFi, Dynamic DNS, Cloud etc.

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@Casino

1). “:123U” means UDP port 123, which is the port used by NTP.

2). The router allows you to create multiple calendars, each covering different domains. When you create a calendar with no domains listed, the calendar covers all web sites. When you create a calendar with google.com listed in the “Sites” field, then that calendar only covers the Google sites, such as www.google.com, docs.google.com etc. When there are multiple calendars on a profile, the calendar that most closely matches the site being visited wins. However, if you have two calendars both listing the same domain but with different time ranges, then the behavior is not defined.

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@Casino With parental control enabled on the pcWRT router, DNS resolution on connected devices is forced to use DNS settings on the router. So there’s no need to block port 53.

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Here’s how to block specific ports.

To block TCP port 8080, enter :8080T in the Blocked URLs box. To block UDP port 23, enter :23U in the Blocked URLs box. To block port 4343 for both TCP and UDP, simply enter :4343.

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@Casino Enter tumblr.com in the Blocked URLs box will block all tumblr.com domains.

For the NTP issue, it’s probably easier just to allow the NTP port: enter :123U in the Allowed URLs box.

If you have calendars on the profile, you need to create a new Calendar to allow NTP. Add a calendar to allow full-day access, put :123U in the sites box.

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@Casino We don’t want to restrict anything on connected devices unless the user wants to put the restrictions in place.

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@Pullmanite Can you connect to the router by WiFi or by wire? Can you access the router management page with http://192.168.10.1 or http://pcwrt.lan? If yes, please send a screenshot of the Status page to [email protected]. If no, please take a picture of the router after it’s fully powered up and sent it. We’ll help you resolve the issue.

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@Casino To block TCP port 8080, enter :8080T in the Blocked URLs box. To block UDP port 23, enter :23U in the Blocked URLs box. To block port 4343 for both TCP and UDP, simply enter :4343.

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