How can I block adult websites on MikroTik?

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• MikroTik Block Website (Facebook, YouTube and Other Sites)

  MikroTik Firewall is a powerful security tool that can be used to block unwanted websites. If you are a network administrator, sometimes it may be your requirement to block any website like Facebook, YouTube, Pornographic site and so on. To block these types of websites, you just need to create Firewall Rules that will drop any connection to these websites through your MikroTik Router. MikroTik Firewall basic concept such as what is MikroTik Firewall, what is MikroTik Firewall Rule, how to implement MikroTik Firewall Rule etc.  was discussed in my previous article. If you feel that you need the basic concept of MikroTik Firewall, feel free to spend time to study that article. In this article, I am only going to show how to block unwanted websites using MikroTik Firewall Rules. How MikroTik Firewall Blocks Websites MikroTik Firewall blocks website using Filter Rule. A MikroTik Filter Rule has two parts. Conditional part which takes various conditional properties such as Chain, Source Address, Destination Address, Protocol, Source Port, Destination Port, Layer7 Protocol etc. to match conditions. Action part which takes only drop action to block any website. If conditional part of a Filter Rule is matched, MikroTik Firewall will drop that [...]

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  MikroTik Hotspot Configuration Using Winbox |   February 22, 2017

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