Howto Block Adult websites using OPENDNS for free :) (with category base filtering support)

Last day someone asked me howto block Adult websites in mikrotik. There is no builtin way to do it as it involves URL filtering and its not the job of ROUTER to do such task. Dedicated proxy server can do it effectively since they are built for such purposes like caching/URL filtering/redirecting etc.

We are using Microsoft TMG in our organization which filters URL based on category, so its easier for us to just select the required category that we want to block , for example Porn / Gambling / Spywares etc but Microsoft charge for this service on annual basis (Which I guess is about 15$ per user annually) , It does the job perfectly and very efficiently but its not a cost effective solution specially if you dont have much budget to pay Microsoft.

However following is the free, neat and clean method to block almost 99$ of porn web sites using OpenDNS server as your primary DNS server in your router/proxy or even desktop PC.

Use the below DNS server as your primary dns server in mikrotik / isa server / router or even a desktop. If you are using Mikrotik or other Server, make sure clients are using your server ip as there DNS server, because opendns will work only if the client / router is using there dns server. You can also force users to use your DNS server by adding redirect rule so every request for dns should be redirected to your local server.

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208.67.222.123

208.67.220.123

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If you are using mikrotik server, then it would look alike something below image . . .

Now if you will try to open any adult web site , it wont open and will give you the default browser ‘Could not open’ error,  or the request will  will be redirected to OpenDNS block page informing you that your request was blocked by OpenDNS.
As showed in the image below . . .

 

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You can also show your own page explaining that Adult web sites are blocked and with your Advertisement. For this purpose, you have to enable web.proxy and redirect user traffic to local proxy, then in proxy access, block the http://www.blocked-website.com / block.opendns.com and redirect it to local web server page.

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Category  Base  Filtering …

 

If you have fix public ip address , then you can create account at http://www.opendns.com and then you can do category base filtering.

as showed in the image below …

 

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Howto Enable Web Proxy in Mikrotik and redirect opendns error page to local error page.

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/ip proxy
set always-from-cache=no cache-administrator=webmaster cache-hit-dscp=4 \
cache-on-disk=no enabled=yes max-cache-size=none max-client-connections=\
600 max-fresh-time=3d max-server-connections=600 parent-proxy=0.0.0.0 \
parent-proxy-port=0 port=8080 serialize-connections=no src-address=\
0.0.0.0

/ip proxy access
add action=deny disabled=no dst-host=www.blocked-website.com dst-port="" \
redirect-to=101.11.11.240/nonpayment/nonpayment.htm</pre>

/ip proxy access
add action=deny disabled=no dst-host=opendns.blockdns.com dst-port="" \
redirect-to=101.11.11.240/nonpayment/nonpayment.htm

Replace the 101.11.11.240 and the full path with your local web server.

Now enable NAT rule to redirect user traffic to local proxy.

Now Redirect All User Traffic to Local Proxy

/ip firewall nat
 add action=redirect chain=dstnat disabled=no dst-port=80 protocol=tcp \
 to-ports=8080

Make sure you move this rule in NAT section above the default masquerading rule. so it captures the http traffic & redirect it, before masquerading it to outside world.

As showed in the image below . . .

If you dont want to use proxy for all request, but for only http://www.blocked-website.com , then use the below rule that will only redirect blocked-website.com traffic to local web proxy, all other traffic will go directly.

/ip firewall nat
add action=redirect chain=dstnat disabled=no dst-address=208.69.33.135 \
dst-port=80 protocol=tcp to-ports=8080

Now when the user will try to open any adult web site, he will be redirected to local proxy, and proxy will (using access rules we defined above) redirect the request to our local web server page showing our info page.
As showed in the image below . . .

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How to force users to use specific DNS Server

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/ip firewall nat
add chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.1 to-ports=53 protocol=tcp dst-port=53
add chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.1.1 to-ports=53 protocol=udp dst-port=53

only udp is required i guess

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Regard’s
Syed Jahanzaib