I just replace my airport extreme with a new one - now Open dns not working

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gator20

August 22, 2015 21:58

I put in a new airport extreme - it is connected to an AT&T two wire modem.   The old airport extreme was configured for opendns and worked fine. But now with the new one filtering is not occuring.   Not sure what to look for.

any suggestions?

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  mattwilson9090 August 23, 2015 00:28

  You need to configure the new airport extreme in the same way as you did the old one. There are multiple ways that you could have done that, you can start with the directions on the homepage, but it's very likely that you designated the OpenDNS DNS servers as part of the internet settings for the airport, and possibly for the DHCP settings it may be handing out. It could also be possible that the old one was updating your IP address for your network, so if so you'd need to do that with the new one. Regardless you should verify that the correct IP address is registered against your OpenDNS network.

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  gator20 August 23, 2015 16:03

  Thanks, when I take the apple router off Bridge mode I see these settings and then this error when I click update.  Not really sure I understand what this means.  Also I don't have a recollection of the settings on my old apple router because it died - so I can't look them up :(

   

   

  
  
  
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  mattwilson9090 August 24, 2015 01:22

  You'd have to look in the manual to be sure, but something that you are entering in the DHCP settings is outside of the bounds of what the router will accept, or you have to set up something first. As far as OpenDNS goes the screenshot you showed has nothing to do with this, since the tab you showed is about assigning addresses via DHCP. You need to find the sections that refer to assigning DNS addresses, perhaps on the "Base Station" or "Internet" tabs.

  I suggest you start from the OpenDNS home page and configure the router from scratch, following the instructions that are listed there, which cover most readily available models of router.

  When you are done you should either document the settings you choose, take screenshots of them, or if the router supports it, save the settings to a file somewhere.

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