Redirecting web pages on Belkin Router

Redirecting web pages on Belkin Router

I am running a small wireless network for a school (all computers are Windows) and would like to stop those that are using the Wireless Internet from hitting possibly banned web pages (e.g. redirecting a user from http://www.gamefaqs.com to http://www.mypage.com/banned.html). I need to only do this for a number of websites and can track these users down by IP and MAC Address if needed.

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"A very simple solution, although not completely bullet-proof is to use an alternative DNS provider. You could use OpenDNS to flag those sites very easily and show a page saying that it is banned. I believe OpenDNS will also provide statistics on who and when the violations occur. If OpenDNS will not work for you, you could provide your own DNS server and set up the domains you want to redirect to your own server which will log the violation and display the error page. This can be done very easily on a consumer router with 3rd party firmware like Tomato

The downside of this solution is that it is rather trivial to by-pass (for a determined user), by using a 3rd party DNS server. You could setup your firewall to block all DNS request to anything but OpenDNS/your DNS server and that would make it harder to get around.

HowToGeek: Easily Add OpenDNS To Your Router"