Alternative to OpenDNS?

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I've been using OpenDNS for a few years to try to filter what websites we can/cant see in our household.. But as the kids get smarter they work out ways of bypassing this (for example, moviestarplanet.com is organised under "Games", moviestarplanet.co.uk is under "Chat", moviestarplanet.no is not organised at all.. So they just pick a foreign one.. lol).. Banning everything in "Chat" causes all sorts of problems with Google services, etc.. Also, its taking longer and longer for changes to the banned/allowed list to take effect..

What I am looking for is something like OpenDNS, but that allows wildcards (so in my example above, *moviestarplanet*) and updates quicker when making changes.. Short of running my own DNS server, do you guys have any suggestions?

(PS: It needs to be customizable, not something like Google DNS, etc).
 
If you are using a windows box simply edit the HOSTS file to route whatever domains back to 127.0.0.1

the HOSTS file can be found at:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Copy it to your desktop, open a new text document and edit as required.
once finished save the HOSTS file (make sure there are no file extensions added (like .txt etc) and the file is named HOSTS.

Dump that back in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and overwrite when prompted.

Now any blocked domains you added to the HOSTS file will not resolve the webpages :)
For example, to block google.com and facebook.com simply add these lines to the HOSTS file...

# 127.0.0.1 google.com
# 127.0.0.1 facebook.com
 
Thanks both, although groovesection was slightly more helpful. :)

Thats an option, but I've got a few machines (also would like to control tablets, etc, hence a DNS way of doing it would be better/easier), so would need to work out a way of pushing the host file out whenever I want it amended.

I wish the paid for version of OpenDNS would allow this, but I dont believe it does.. It is more for enabling you to add logos to banned-sites screen, etc..
 
Can you not apply filtering locally at your gateway/router?
This is certainly the better way of doing it considering DNS filtering is easily bypassed (surprised your kids haven't managed to do it already).
 
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