PPP DNS Addresses: Difference between revisions

However, you can override this if you like by putting IP addresses here.

==Why?==

This gives some control over the DNS servers that your computers will use, which is useful if you want to use third party DNS servers that offer adult filtering services - such as OpenDNS.

==Problems==

Filtering systems are often easy to bypass - and the method described here can be bypassed by simply overriding the DNS servers on the computer.

Many of the services that offer filtering also offer a way to check that they are being used. eg OpenDNS will tell you on their setup pages.