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Configure Custom Block Pages
Admins have the ability to edit the default block page and to create multiple custom block pages to present to end users. Block pages are rendered in our block page service engine. You can assign custom block pages to WANs under Sites, and Roaming ...
API Access
API access is available to certain account types. API access gives admins the ability to self manage API tokens for access to the standard ScoutDNS Operator API. This help article is about the public operator API. For any other API access such as the ...
2FA/MFA - Two Factor Authentication
Enabling 2FA for your account can increase the security for operators accessing your data. ScoutDNS supports token based 2FA and this can be enforced for all operators with access to an account. Once enabled, any operator accessing your account will ...
Organizations - Configuration and Management of Multi-Tenant Use
ScoutDNS provides two levels of tenancy. The primary inherent level allows any operator to be a member of any number of accounts and could have different roles depending on each account setting. The second level enabled though the Organizations tab ...
Roaming Clients / Device Agents - Setup, Configure, and Manage
ScoutDNS provides device agents for organizations what wish to cover devices with DNS layer protection on and off the network. The ScoutDNS device agent is an extremely lightweight application best installed on managed devices where administrative ...

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Working with Whitelist and Blacklist
Often times it can be helpful to fully block or allow a domain based on desired result. The White/Black List tab allows you to build and manage custom block and allow lists and associate these lists to all policies (global) or to a specific policy in ...
Content Categories
Below is a list of Content Categories and their descriptions. Adult Abortions These are sites that offer arguments that are either in favor of or against abortions. This includes information on abortion procedures as well as sites that offer ...
Quick Start Setup Guide - WAN Forwarding
There are three methods you can use to protect your networks and users with ScoutDNS. 1) WAN Forwarding: involves configuring ScoutDNS with your WAN IP address and then forwarding DNS queries from inside your network us our anycast resolver IPs. ...
Mixing DNS Providers
It is generally not recommended to mix DNS providers. Most routers and systems will randomly select which DNS server receives which packets. This will certainly cause problems in both filtering and reporting due to mixed rules in system cache. This ...
Dynamic IP Setup
ScoutDNS supports dynamic DNS IP address integration with almost any dynamic DNS provider. Popular Dynamic DNS solutions include: No-IP ChangeIP DynDNS FreeDNS Once you have an account with any of these or similar solutions, you can configure ...

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