Redirect vs NXDOMAIN & Fallthrough
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I was configuring a friend’s router with Cleanbrowsing and I found something very peculiar happening – because the DNS lookup for adult sites on was failing on cleanbrowsing with NXDOMAIN, it was falling back to the ISP DNS, even when I setup cleanbrowsing in “all” of the available boxes for DNS servers that the router allowed.
I realize that this is a router issue, and not a cleanbrowsing issue, however, I was unable to get around it with this particular router and I ended up setting up another “family” DNS resolver that implements a block page redirect.
I understand why cleanbrowsing returns NXDOMAIN for a reason – to avoid a trackable redirect. However, I think it would be useful for you to have a redirect option that is publicized. I do understand this is something that can be done with your paid plans, but I feel without this option for the free plans, you may be preventing people from being able to use your service.
I found a post online that indicated the adult servers that DO redirect to a block page are 185.228.168.11 & 185.228.169.11 (seems incorrect since it matches what is on your website as a regular IPv4 address)
Any chance you could make the “default” redirect hosts available to help people that are stuck with routers like this?
Hi
You are actually right, you want to use:
.11 for adult
.169 for familyThis will help address what you’re describing with the NXDOMAIN response being hijacked by the ISP.
Thanks
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