Enabling Youtube while blocking streaming media using DNS

A comment support request is how to configure Rawstream Cloud DNS to allow access to Youtube while blocking the rest of the streaming media sites. Adding youtube.com to the Allow List is not enough. YouTube hosts videos and resources across a number of domains. Here is how to block streaming media sites while allowing access to ..

How-To: User-Based Filtering

How-To: User-Based Filtering

How it works We have an innovative method to support per-user policies based on agent technology. The agent acts as a DNS proxy on the machine – the machine uses the agent as the DNS server and the agent then reponds to the DNS queries. Internal domains continue to resolve normally. Internet activity is monitored ..

How-To: Deploying DNS-based filtering

How-To: Deploying DNS-based filtering

How it works DNS based monitoring / filtering works by having Rawstream process the DNS requests from your network. Configure your machine or network router to use the Rawstream DNS servers to answer the DNS queries. When Rawstream receives a DNS query, it checks to see if the source IP is from a customer’s network. ..