In YouTube Safety mode, live streams are blocked (yes, including reindeer cams). Your firewall should be locked down to only allow DNS requests from your approved DNS servers. If anyone uses a DNS server other than your DNS servers, they can bypass Google Safe Search. ![]() This is an all-or-nothing approach for the entire network that uses your DNS servers. Now test by browsing to and All search requests, including are redirected to so there is no need to worry about Google's other hostnames (at the time of this writing). Once this is in place you can test by performing an nslookup on it should resolve only to this IP address. When you are finished, your zone should look like this: Once verified, create a new zone for (and again for Once the zone is created, you'll need to add an A record for the domain name that points to 216.239.38.120. You can verify this at any command line by entering nslookup You want your zone names to be and Currently, resolves to 216.239.38.120. com or, this will only bring you heartache. These instructions will guide you through creating A record entries for and with Windows DNS, though BIND and other servers will work similarly. There are some complications with this, which we will not get into here. Google's documentation suggests that a CNAME be created in DNS to redirect traffic to this host. All Google and YouTube traffic destined to this hostname will be forced to enable Safe Search, with no options to disable it. ![]() Google & YouTube recently released a hostname called. ![]() They can sign up their public IPs to enforce safe search and disable ads for Bing. In late 2014, we're starting to see the major search & content providers finally provide network-wide options for enabling safe search.īing has a network-wide option for schools. Now with the move to SSL-everywhere, safe search is tougher than ever to enforce at the network level. This can cause issues when web filters that have worked for years are suddenly unable to filter adult content from image searches. These features are constantly updated, usually without warning. Solid Border has many K-12 customers who depend on SafeSearch features in search engines.
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