We have a Linksys LRT224 Dual WAN router and OpenDNS Updater ...
We have recently changed from a single AT&T U-verse modem setup, to a new Linksys LRT244 Dual WAN router and have added a second AT&T U-verse modem. The router does the "load balancing" with out the need for a separate network device.
The setup of the 2x AT&T U-verse Business modems and the Linksys Dual WAN router is working really well.
The problem we are having since changing our network is that the "OpenDNS Updater" software that is installed on all computers in the office. There are 6 computers in the office, and only 2 are having a problem with the "OpenDNS Updater" application windows appears and flashes 2 different IP addresses slowly. When I open the application manually and click on the "update now" button in the section labeled "IP Address" it flashes between 2 different IP address really fast then stops on one of the IP addresses. The IP addresses are 9x.4x.1xx.1x and the other 107.x.x.x. which I have checked are the "outside" the office IP addresses. (IP address are marked with "x" before this network is live, and I don't want them posted to a public forums). The same thing happens in our OpenDNS account where the two IP address mentioned above show up but only one at a time.
I have tried changing the Linksys LRT224 DNS setting but then the connection to the internet does not work. What I can assume is that AT&T does not want any other DNS used other then what they provide. If I reverse the DNS change back to the default and "power cycle" the Linksys router and both AT&T modems everything works like before. _THAT IS NOT OK_, I use the OpenDNS service to be the 1st line of defense when of office employees use the internet in the office.
Is there something I missing or does the OpenDNS service not work correctly with a Dual WAN router?
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I have a dual-wan cisco RV042 router load balancing two 3mb DSL connections... I cannot get anything more for bandwidth where I live... Anyway, I want to use OpenDNS. How do I configure this? I have it working, but when the client software IP Updater updates the IP to your servers the dual IPs flash back and forth between the two IPs of the router and then picks one. I have started to see the message that there is an IP mismatch, I'm sure there is ;-)
Please help me to set this up correctly. Also, I have a DynDNS account that is able to keep my IP updated. Could I point my OpenDNS account to a FQDN instead of an IP?
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Aside from following the directions the rotblitz provided in his first reply to this thread OVER A YEAR AGO you'll probably need to configure something on the router itself for each separate connection.
As for any sort of dynamic DNS client or FQDN updates to OpenDNS that is not something that OpenDNS allows for security reasons. However, generally speaking you can use DNS-O-Matic (an OpenDNS product) to update both OpenDNS, DDNS and other internet based services. You could probably use the same methodology to do that as you'd use to directly update OpenDNS.
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@nalasha79
Is this related to your other thread https://support.opendns.com/entries/95469158 in any way?And yes, follow my instructions in my first reply above. There are no new insights in the meantime.
In case you didn't understand what I was saying:
You need two OpenDNS accounts, each with one network, and maybe equally two related DNS-O-Matic accounts (https://www.dnsomatic.com/). You run two updaters (computer software and/or built-in on devices like the router) against each of your OpenDNS or DNS-O-Matic accounts to update each of your OpenDNS networks with the dedicated IP address of a specific DSL connection.Each updater must work against a dedicated DSL connection to prevent from "the dual IPs flash back and forth between the two IPs of the router". You may be able to achieve this by configuring specific routes, separate and effective for each updater.
See the Cisco documentation for more information, e.g.:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/11936041/dual-wan-configuration-rv042-rv042g-and-rv082-vpn-routers
http://sbkb.cisco.com/CiscoSB/GetArticle.aspx?docid=d297d2890f084031a5e906f24727104c_Set_Up_Dual_WAN_Connections_.xml&pid=2&converted=0Btw, unlike the update requirements for OpenDNS, your Dynamic DNS hostname like nalasha79.dyndns.org can have one IP address only anyway, because this comes with one A (and/or AAAA) record. In principle it doesn't matter what IP address the hostname as assigned to it. However, if you had registered an own domain name with Dynamic DNS facility included, you could assign it two A and/or AAAA records, one for each IP address. This would cause load balancing per connection attempt.
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