How to activate Google SafeSearch vip by Default Using Mikrotik Router
Starting August, 10 2018, Kominfo decided to implemented safesearch on Google search engine for censorship reason. if you are using major isp like Telkomsel, Telkom, Firstmedia, and other major ISP, it would be turned on automatically
in some cases, we may used custom dns (which is almost impossible except from minority isp). But, did our DNS provider activated Safesearch aswell as Indonesian DNS? Maybe yes, but in some cases they’re not implemented it. If you’re using custom dns and willing to keep safesearch on, there’s a way to do that from using hosts file or using static dns from your router.
Today, i’m gonna tell you how to activate safesearch vip on your mikrotik router using dns static queries.
Note: DNS I used on this experiment is OpenDNS With Custom Blocking (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220). it doesn’t implemented safesearch. Also there are DNS Forwarding on my mikrotik which forwarding all my DNS queries to my router instead of custom DNS.
First, You must know about google safesearch vip ip address. Open Command Prompt then lookup ip address of forcesafesearch.google.com using command below:
ping forcesafesearch.google.com or
nslookup forcesafesearch.google.com
From the picture, the ip address of safesearch vip is 216.239.38.120
As you can see, safesearch has not implemented yet
Log in to your Mikrotik Router using your username and password
After login go to ip menu then select DNS
Then, select static to add custom dns (for redirecting Google to Google SafeSearch)
Fill the address with google safesearch ip address (in this case: 216.239.38.120)
For the name, fill it with google domain (for example www.google.co.id)
Note: you must fill both www.google.xxx and google.xxx domain for full implementation. if you are using only one of them, for example only google.xxx, it won’t work
Do the same things to other google domain for example to country domain (ex: google.co.id) like this
Don’t forget to clear your DNS Cache on Your Router as well as Your computer too
There you go. You’re Successfully turned on SafeSearch VIP on your router