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Techsystem
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save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:10 pm

Hello My friends...!
so here is my situation:
i have 20 users connected to RB 951ui MT, and i want to know where everyone of them go in internet -(recording any website or ip requested from those clients devices)- so what i have to
do in this case ...?
can i do that using Mikrotik...? (if i can do that with MT what i ahave to do in this case..?) or i have to use another application like PRTG..etc.?
please any advise.!
thanks in advance.
 
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Re: save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:02 pm

You could add firewall filter rule which logs any connection established from LAN towards WAN.

Analysing such log is a completely different story.
 
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Re: save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:11 pm

Why.................. are you the internet police?
The router cannot replace being a parent ......
If you are worried about them visiting malware sites,
get something like this that blocks most bad sites and is cheap.....
https://itexpertoncall.com/additional_info/moabpre.html
 
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Re: save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:51 am

You could add firewall filter rule which logs any connection established from LAN towards WAN.

Analysing such log is a completely different story.
well i want the second one..! i want to analysing the log activity. can we do that if we playing around DNS..?
 
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Re: save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:52 am

Why.................. are you the internet police?
The router cannot replace being a parent ......
If you are worried about them visiting malware sites,
get something like this that blocks most bad sites and is cheap.....
https://itexpertoncall.com/additional_info/moabpre.html
no i just want to monitor the users activity. do you know any other program that we can use if we can't do that in mikrotik..?
 
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Re: save DNS request from Clients using mikrotik

Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:33 am

You could add your "private" DNS server plus logging to your network. However, depending upon knowledge of your clients, they might bypass this. Or the browser used does this by default itself, already. I.e. using DoH, which would need some additional tricks for you against it.
A completely other solution would be to add a smart proxy. i.g. squid, to do the logging.
In both scenarios, only domains to be logged.
Of course, you could replace the MT stuff with a more suitable environment for all this. I.e. openwrt-box or full blown Linux system.

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