OpenDNS in the UK

Is anyone in the UK using OpenDNS successfully with Apple TV (and iPhone/Touch) for YouTube?
We've got workarounds for the iPhones and Touch using m.youtube.com through Safari rather than the native YouTube app.
We can access YouTube from all our Windows and Mac desktops and laptops - no problem, but if we try to access it from Apple TV, we get the message "An error occurred loading this content. Try again later."
I really want to use OpenDNS to protect my kids from adult content when they're using their laptops and iPhones unsupervised.
Any suggestions? Any domains to whitelist?
Thanks

Hello CranleyWindy ,
I am in the U.S. and am having the same trouble with OpenDNS and YouTube app on the iPhone.
It has nothing to do with your location, but it does have to do with the address YouTube app uses.
I had the same problem with the imdb.app and to fix that I had to allow app.imdb.com to my whitelist in the
OpenDNS settings. I came here to see if anyone had figured out what web address the Youtube.app uses.
I will do my own footwork and sniff the packets on my network to find the web address that the YouTube.app
uses. And I will return to give you an answer. I usually do not answer anyone on forums, but I do see that the
only people who chose to answer you gave some type of negative feedback. And both of those people
sound like they either do not have a clue, or at first did not fully read your question.

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hey guys,
Yesterday i enabled the BT parental controls as I wanted to try the filters out. Did not really like it, because it didn't allow me to also use OpenDNS at the same time. So this morning i permanently removed BT parental controls, but it is still not allowing me to use OpenDNS.
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OpenDNS on the Airport Extreme can be bypassed by entering a different DNS on a computer's network preferences pane, as long as that user has administrator rights. Can anyone tell me if I can force all machines on my network to use the Airport's OpenDNS settings?

Here is how I solved this problem, maybe this will help you:
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(2) I wanted to make sure that no matter what the clients put for their preferred DNS, when going out to the internet their DNS ip address were replaced and forced into the OpenDNS servers DNS, without the user even realizing the replacement was taken place.
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Thank you for the prompt reply. Basically, opendns replaces the default dns server provided by the isp. This is done by specifying "address only" for the DHCP. Hopefully the attached image will be more helpful than my description!
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After a while the iMac simply reverts to the DNS server offered by my ISP (roadrunner). I know this because if I mis-enter a URL I get taken to roadrunner's redirection page instead of OpenDNS's the way it should be.
I can certainly hard-enter the OpenDNS IP addresses in System Preferences/Networking but that kind of defeats the purpose of putting these addresses in the router so they serve every machine on my home LAN. Machines still on Leopard are having no problem pulling the correct DNS server.
Some looking around suggests this may be a wake-from-sleep problem. Anyone agree? Is Apple aware?

1. Have you verified by looking in the network settings what dns your mac has, rather than "I know this because if I mis-enter a URL I get taken to roadrunner's redirection page instead of OpenDNS's the way it should be."
It seems strange that it would lose DNS settings obtained via dhcp, but keep the ip address.
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Safari does not require OpenDNS servers to work; millions of users use without that and it works perfectly fine for them. It's merely an option to avoid some of the more questionable practices of ISPs, such as intercepting incorrect URL requests with advertising.
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Hi SuperRup91:
As the fantastic jscher2000 wrote:
"you may have OpenDNS set as your DNS service in your router, or your ISP may be using it."
And you may not have been aware that OpenDNS was set in your WiFi router.
Whoever controls the network that your WiFi hooks into can change google searches or anything you browse or in this case change "404 page not found errors" to go to OpenDNS. And there are two place where your network is controlled: i) your wifi router and ii) your ISP.
Two examples:
1. Here in Vancouver, Canada where I live, if you connect to a Shaw WiFi hotspot, then Shaw changes your searches by adding Shaw specific stuff. Not a great situation :-) but Shaw does that. (one could argue that this means Shaw is "breaking the internet")
2. By default Verizon configures the WiFi routers they supply with something called "DNS assistance" which changes DNS and again one could argue that this too "breaks the internet"
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/975069#answer-493363
* https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinternet/troubleshooting/network/questionsone/99147.htm
Therefore, I recommend you check your WiFi router and see if it has OpenDNS configured. You may have to consult your ISP's technical support to remove OpenDNS; this is most certainly not a Firefox problem; we can't help with WiFi router configuration unfortunately.
Hope that helps!
Happy Holidays!
...Roland

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