Currently I can lookup stats utilising the following record types:
A
SOA
PTR
SRV
It would be very useful to also be able to see other DNS types - MX is the record I am keen on looking at. I know OPENDNS is primarily a web filtering tool but to be able to view MX records would be very cool indeed.... (or is there a way already?...)
I can't find any option to edit / change the request types...
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It would be very useful to also be able to see other DNS types - MX is the record I am keen on looking at. I know OPENDNS is primarily a web filtering tool but to be able to view MX records would be very cool indeed.... (or is there a way already?...)
I can't find any option to edit / change the request types...
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andybh- You are right about the mail being blocked as well.
You can get around this, however, by using a separate network for your mail server, and not enabling Domain Blocking or Category Blocking.
written by edavid3001 271 days ago
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if you are on a windows platform you do this
nslookup
set type=mx
yahoo.com
that will resolve MX records for you. You may need to Google what these results are if you don't get it.
If you are on *nix such as Mac, open up a terminal and do
dig mx yahoo.com
If you don't like the command line, Superscan 4 offers MX lookup from a GUI, the Mac has a network lookup tool buried in it somewhere, and I'm sure there are plenty of RPM/DEB's for *nix. DNSStuff does this web based too.
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My understanding is that OpenDNS is NOT a web filtering tool - It is working at the DNS level rather than looking at URLs.
With my network configured to use OpenDNS for DNS lookups I would expect that not is webviewing of say www.playboy.com blocked but I would not be able to email username@playboy.com either as the DNS lookup of the domain is blocked.
Am I right in thinking this or just a confused n00bie ? ;-)