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25 reviewers had the following to say about DNSFilter's features:
Bulletproof reliability. Secure as all hell.
Pros
The interface is responsive, reliable and two factor authentication is a godsend.
Cons
For some reason multi-select editing doesn't work. It's possible it's not meant to do this but the checkbox makes me thing it could?
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Save money, protect our users and network from Malware.
Pros
Quick response, low cost. Excellent alternative to the slow and expensive competitors. New features are constantly coming.
Cons
No email alerts available.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The dashboard is clear and easy to use.
Cons
The obligation to deploy on each workstation of the network the SSL certificate in order to see correctly (without browser security warning) the block page.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Overall, it fits our security needs for our students and our budget!
Pros
The weekly reports help keep our students safe and the faculty aware of nev'r-do-well activity. It gives our faculty, me and our parents an assurance that we are looking out for their student's best interest.
Cons
At first it was difficult to figure out where I could access the specifics of the weekly report.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's relatively easy to set up multiple filtering schemes for each location to have, for example, relaxed filtering before and after regular work hours, or to restrict certain activities during events (e.g., restricting streaming sports sites during March Madness).
Cons
Based on site and not user, this is not a good solution for mobile users. They recently introduced a mobile client, but for Windows only.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Excellent and quick solution with granual report and also protect both on premise and off premise.
Pros
complete solution good for quick security solution
Cons
need little more granurality with site integration, its very less perview
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Ease of use of the software, mobile friendly, amazing support.
Cons
Missing some important features, such as a local resolver and immediate alerts upon blocking threats
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Security and reporting
Pros
Its quite easy to use and the dev team has a great plan for the future.
Cons
Some of the missing features specific to my business, and the adaptation of the service in our business was slightly difficult. Its sometimes hard to determine the cause of a problem (ie, SMTP mail failures due to false positives by DNS Filter).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Phishing requires a three part solution - Inbound spam filter, End User training and DNS filtering
Pros
Quick setup, comprehensive reporting way cheaper than OpenDNS and support is exceptional
Cons
They don't have Active Directory integration but it is on the road map
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Great feature set, solid performance, easy admin control, fair pricing.
Pros
DNSFilter offers a range of reports on usage and blocks on a level you'd expect to see only in higher priced alternatives.
Cons
Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with new features. The company does send email announcements out, but I'll have the experience of logging in, seeing something new and wondering how long it's been there. That's about the worst thing I can think of to say about our relationship with DNSFilter. They deliver what they promise, and they continue to innovate and improve their product.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Other products that were attempted also did not have a Domain Lookup tool to see whether or not a domain might be getting blocked without a block page to display it (like for mobile apps).
Pros
There are enough categories to filter that it feels granular, and the reporting features are a good start.
Cons
At this point deployment of different policies, like for a Guest Network, is difficult as it requires changes to the DNS server of choice for those devices (either on a network or device level).
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I wanted to increase the security of our business
Pros
The software has a nice dashboard and is easy to configure
Cons
When switching our DNS servers to DNS filter instead of CloudFlare's public DNS it caused the MARCS updater to frequently flip flop between our real Public IP and some other IP.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Sales and onboarding process was smooth, pricing is flexible and straightforward.
Pros
Deploy is simple, was able get the sites set with a good policy, then customize by deploying agents for more granular content control.
Cons
No Mac agent - while I can lock down content by Site, I don't have mobile protection or granular content control for my Mac using clients.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Been overall a good product
As well as my comment in the Cons section, it is likely to early to actually tell the full business benefits however it's pretty obvious that by reducing the ability to waste time browsing the likes of Facebook and streaming media the benefits will be reflected in bandwidth consumption and work output.
Pros
Ability to set schedules for policies including free time for surfing during lunch which appeases the staff somewhat from the shock of having filtering introduced. 4.
Cons
It does so much more than other cloud based DNS products on the market, and that I tested, that within a day of installing it for a 14 day trial I had already decided to buy this for my company.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It is used along side Hardware Web Filtering, Malware/AV scanning, etc.
The fact that i can protect users connecting to our free wifi system at a short price is a real benefit !
Pros
Adding Networks is easy ! Dashboard is responsive !
Cons
Look like More and more features will come and dnsfilter will be even better in the future ! DNS over https is here ! but DNSSEC Please !
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Secure data, employee productivity
Pros
Great functionality, easy to use, easy to configure and manage.
Cons
I honestly have no cons. We have been very pleased with every facet of DNSFilter. Any cons I ever have, the very quickly make an update that fixes them before I can even complain.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I didn't decide to stick with it because the content filter isn't perfect, there are plenty of sites we were able to visit that got through the content filters, and doing content filtering by DNS isn't as accurate as a dedicated box for content filtering, that being said I would still have chosen to use it if it were 3 bucks a month, or 40 bucks a year or something.
DNS filtering without breaking the bank. Ability to rapidly deploy to potential clients with minimal configuration. Love the continual development as well.
Pros
Continual development of new features, dead simple pricing, granular configuration and reporting mechanisms.
Cons
Would love to have granular control over items in blocklists, with the ability to add my own to the category (or create my own category)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Malware protection, end user surfing auditing, and general organization protection.
Pros
Ease of use and the fact that there is an agent that allows me to create filters per user. This is very useful.
Cons
There is no way to submit requests to a "wish list" in the panel or in general. If possible I would like a button in the panel where I could submit ideas for improvements. I would also like to be able to add my own RBL servers to the filtering.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hey Christopher -- Thanks for your feedback! Actually we have always had a feedback function on the site where you can suggest, and upvote features. If you click your image in the upper right, there's a 'Feature Request' dropdown. You can also visit it directly here: https://app.dnsfilter.com/feature-request
