There is probably a better way to do this, but I've gotten tired of my son screwing around on the net and not doing his homework, so I've decided to block a few sites at the router. His system uses DHCP addressing, so he picks up the DNS server info from OpenWRT, which till now just passed along those requests to the configured ISP DNS servers. My other systems are on static, and have these DNS entries listed manually.
So, it seemed to be an easy process to insert a few entries into the /etc/hosts file on the router.
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