![]() ![]() HOWEVER, I just went back to try "playboydotcom" and " ".and both were accessible, even though I haven't done anything in the last few minutes other than type here this response! I just cleared my browser cache (Firefox, latest version), and "playboydotcom" was successfully blocked again.but " " was still accessible. That site also shows up in my 'blocked domain' list in my Dashboard. However, I did a reboot not long ago after a windows update, flushed my browser cache (for the millionth time), and this time it DID block "playboydotcom". 208.67.220.220ĭaniel: I also noticed that my connection was generating DNS traffic, but it wasn't blocking anything (as I had set the account up to do). The results of the test suggested by 'rotblitz':Ĭ:\>nslookup -type=txt. I already tested at the test page (hence the 'OOPS' page displayed) before trying "playboydotcom" and a couple other sites that should have been blocked. I've used OpenDNS before, and know how to use it, and it worked before. I give it my top recommendation.While trying to provide an abundance of information in my OP, apparently things weren't very clear. I believe that this application is well worth the price, and the author has been responsive in supporting the users of this software. It is a simple to use solution for updating dynamic DNS addresses on a Mac computer that will work with the new Catalina release, which requires a 64-bit updater application. I did some searching and found the 64-bit app RealDNS by MingleBit on the Mac App Store. I'm not cognizant of the software packages that the current client was based on, so it could be a matter of a complete rewrite, and therefore, not a cost-effective project for the Cisco programmers. It seems that to update the app from 32-bit should not be impossible work, it ought to be rather trivial. I've decided that waiting for a 64-bit update to the OpenDNS Updater was not satisfying. I use Cisco's OpenDNS for my home network DNS Server, and have used the 32-bit OpenDNS Updater client for macOS provided by Cisco up through macOS Mojave. The application respects the following principles: "easy for everybody, complete for professionals". Help - complete help for all the application functions, and more. Run at login - the application can be set to run at login so that hostnames will be always updated in the background with no user interaction, even if the computer restarts.ĭon't allow computer to enter sleep - The application won't allow the computer to enter sleep when is locked or idle so it can update hostnames in background Manual update - a manual update can be performed at any moment. IP History - a log is kept with all your successful IP updates made by the application. Logs - all your actions and the dynamic DNS provider responses will be displayed in the log view. Update after wake-up - performs an update at wake-up if the time spent in sleep is exceeded the automatic update time interval. ICloud synchronization - sync your accounts and hostnames between Mac OS X and iOS (available with Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8). Every hostname can have his own IP source. Multiple accounts, multiple hostnames, multiple IP sources - Use the IP address of any available interface in your system and assign it to any hostname from any account. Internal failover - if the interface assigned to your hostname is not available the application will get the IP address of any available network interface and perform an update with that IP, thus maintaining a connection to your device, with two failover types. Multi-provider - this option allow you to make hostname updates to multiple providers at the same time, so in case a provider will be down your IP address will be saved to the other enabled providers assuring that you will always have a hostname updated with your latest IP address. The application has an initial easy to use interface for every user but behind it, the application contains powerful tools for professionals. The IP address, which will be used to perform the hostname update, can be: RealDNS is an application that updates your hostnames with the latest IP address of your computer assuring that you will always have an updated hostname allowing you to connect to your computer from everywhere. RealDNS updates 18 dynamic DNS providers: Dyn, NoIP, FreeDNS, ChangeIP, DuckDNS, XpertDNS, Strato,, DtDNS, EasyDNS, DNS Made Easy, CloudFlare, Google Domains, Namecheap, Hurricane Electric, Loopia, OpenDNS, GoDaddy. Also available on iOS, with iCloud synchronization. The best dynamic DNS update client on App Store with support IPv4 and IPv6.
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