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Use these domains to confirm that blocked Categories in your Policies work as expected without relying on real-world examples. They help when starting a trial, creating a new policy, or monitoring service performance.
Why is DNSFilter blocking itself in my Reporting data?
*.filterdns.net domains are our test domains for filtering policies, and are used across our debug page. These will show in threat summaries, the query log, and reporting anytime someone tests a policy. This is the expected behavior and a sign of a successful test.
How Category Test Domains work
Test categories individually by browsing the domains shown below in the content categories. For example, if you want to test your block page against adult content, visit adult.filterdns.net.
- Setup a policy and apply to a Site configured to DNSFilter IP addresses
- Navigate to a blocked category’s domain
A Block Page will appear if the policy is configured correctly. An error message (e.g. 504 return) appears if the category is not blocked or there is a misconfiguration for the Site.
Test all categories at once by visiting debug.dnsfilter.com. This image is an example return from testing all categories via the debug page.
Content Categories
| Category | Domain |
| Abortion | abortion.filterdns.net |
| Adult Content | adult.filterdns.net |
| Alcohol & Tobacco | alcoholandtobacco.filterdns.net |
| Blogs & Personal Sites | blogsandpersonal.filterdns.net |
| Business | business.filterdns.net |
| Contentious & Misinformation | contentiousandmisinformation.filterdns.net |
| Dating & Personals | personals.filterdns.net |
| Drugs | drugs.filterdns.net |
| Economy & Finance | economyandfinance.filterdns.net |
| Education & Self Help | education.filterdns.net |
| Entertainment | entertainment.filterdns.net |
| Food & Recipes | foodandrecipes.filterdns.net |
| Gambling | gambling.filterdns.net |
| Games | games.filterdns.net |
| Government | government.filterdns.net |
| Hacking & Cracking | hacking.filterdns.net |
| Health | health.filterdns.net |
| Humor | humor.filterdns.net |
| Information Technology | informationtech.filterdns.net |
| Internet Watch Foundation & Project Arachnid | iwf.filterdns.net |
| Jobs & Careers | jobrelated.filterdns.net |
| Media Sharing | mediasharing.filterdns.net |
| Message Boards & Forums | messageboardsandforums.filterdns.net |
| News & Media | newsandmedia.filterdns.net |
| P2P & Illegal | illegalcontent.filterdns.net |
| Real Estate | realestate.filterdns.net |
| Religion | religion.filterdns.net |
| Search Engines & Portals | searchenginesandportals.filterdns.net |
| Self Harm | selfharm.filterdns.net |
| Social Networking | socialnetworking.filterdns.net |
| Shopping | shopping.filterdns.net |
| Sports | sports.filterdns.net |
| Streaming Media | streamingmedia.filterdns.net |
| Terrorism & Hate | terrorismandhate.filterdns.net |
| Travel | travel.filterdns.net |
| Vehicles | vehicles.filterdns.net |
| Virtual Reality | virtualreality.filterdns.net |
| Weapons | weapons.filterdns.net |
| Webmail & Chat | chatandmessaging.filterdns.net |
Threats
| Category | Domain |
| Botnet | botnet.filterdns.net |
| Cryptomining | cryptomining.filterdns.net |
| Malicious Domain Protection | maliciousdomainprotection.filterdns.net |
| Malware | malware.filterdns.net |
| New Domains | newdomains.filterdns.net |
| Newly Observed Domains | newlyobserveddomains.filterdns.net |
| Phishing | phishing.filterdns.net |
| Proxy & Filter Avoidance | proxyandfilteravoidance.filterdns.net |
| Suspicious & Deceptive | suspiciousanddeceptive.filterdns.net |
| Translation Sites | translators.filterdns.net |
| Very New Domains | verynewdomains.filterdns.net |
Privacy
| Category | Domain |
| Advertising | advertising.filterdns.net |
| Trackers | trackers.filterdns.net |
Labs
| Category | Domain |
| Parked Sites & Domains | parked.filterdns.net |
| Uncategorized & Unknown Sites | uncategorized.filterdns.net |
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