I have a Linksys EA8500 router with a jillion devices attached. It's working okay I guess, but I have it blocking 5 computers from the internet. Only problem is, they're not blocked, they access the internet just fine, all 5 of them. AND, I also have the router blocking certain websites to certain computers. But they're not blocked whatsoever...
I'm using the 'hosts' file and the 127.0.0.1 loopback deally to block these same certain websites plus a few others. And while pinging these websites brings back the 127.0.0.1 address, which is supposed to mean the blocking should be working, every one of these websites I can access just fine...
So at the moment the only way I can disconnect the 5 computers from the 'net is to take them off my network, and I can't have that, these computers are used to run machines and programs that won't run on other computers, they must be networked. And why isn't the loopback working, it did at first, like 3 years ago.
Searching answers to this online I find lots of others with the same issues but no solutions...
Feeling a bit naked here, any ideas?