If you’re trying to use Encrypted DNS on your MacOS using .mobileconfig files with profiles you might have noticed that Chromium based browsers (e.g., Chrome and MS Edge) don’t respect the settings defined by your profile. This applies to all Encrypted DNS providers and all mobile configuration files, including CloudFlare,…
When HTTPS enabled domains are blocked by a policy, CleanBrowsing presents a block page to you which is also served over HTTPS. This block page is encrypted with a certificate signed by the CleanBrowsing Root CA. In order to avoid certificate errors when accessing the block page, you must install…
The Time-to-Live (TTL) of a domain is an important parameter that can significantly affect the behavior of Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers. DNS resolvers are the components of the DNS infrastructure that respond to DNS queries from clients and provide them with the IP addresses associated with domain names. TTL…
DNS (Domain Name System) is a critical component of the internet that helps users connect to websites and services by translating domain names (such as cleanbrowsing.org) into IP addresses (such as 51.161.115.44). DNS does this by storing information about the domain (e.g., cleanbrowsing.org) in what is known as “records”. Think…
CleanBrowsing is a content filtering platform that leverages DNS filtering to create one of the most effective filtering platforms for pornographic and obscene content. But how does the CleanBrowsing filtering work? Hello Categorify – A Domain Categorization Engine At the core of our filtering technology, you will find Categorify. Categorify is a free tool that…
If you’re working with spectrum you might need to make your changes via the Spectrum App or router. This article will focus on the router via the RAC2V1K router with Firmware 1.2.4. 1 – Access the Router By default, spectrum routers are typically accessed here: 192.168.1.1. But it can be…
One of the more common issues you might encounter when working with the CleanBrowsing dashboard is the “No Data Available – DNS Not Configured” notice. Contrary to what you might think, this is not an error, it is a notice. This only occurs when the platform is not seeing traffic…
This article is for technical users. It assumes you understand the mechanics of DNS, and likely manage your own domain zone file. It is specific DNS resolutions issues as they pertain to DNSSEC (good primer on DNSSEC). If you find that your domain is not resolving across multiple DNS resolvers…
Configuring DNS-over-HTTPs (DOH) in a Chrome browser can be done locally in a browser using the secure DNS option in the Chrome browser settings. Access the security settings by going here in the Chrome browse: chrome://settings/security Scroll down to the “Use secure DNS“. Click on “Custom” and toggle the option on. Paste the DOH…
CleanBrowsing is a DNS-based resolver. This means it needs fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to work correctly. So when it comes to TOR, we can block this: torproject.org but we can’t block the exit nodes that power TOR. So if TOR is already installed, it will continue to work. What…