Opendns and Asus ac66u

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ritzie

December 20, 2013 12:50

I cannot seem to get opendns to work. I'm have a macbook and I have 2 windows machine. When I do ipconfig on the windows machine the dns shows my router ip. I setup the router dns to point to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 and I flushed dns. I have webfiltering on to low. 

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  rotblitz December 20, 2013 13:20

  As you configured the OpenDNS resolver addresses correctly on the WAN side, they will never be propagated to the computer, so you'll not see them there, but will see that your computer's DNS is pointed to the router.  This is good, else your local name resolution would be broken or impacted.

  What message does http://welcome.opendns.com/ come back with?

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  ritzie December 20, 2013 13:22

  Thanks rotblitz that was my thought but needed to talk it through. So now when I go to http://welcome.opendns.com the following comes up

  You aren't using OpenDNS yet.
  Let's fix that. If you haven't restarted your computer yet, please do that now.

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  rotblitz December 22, 2013 13:14

  You see now what the problem is.  Your router settings don't seem to take effect.  Your ISP may redirect your DNS queries to their DNS service.  Check it with this command:

  nslookup -type=txt which.opendns.com. 208.67.220.220

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  ritzie December 22, 2013 13:16

  ok got it. here is the output

  Server:        208.67.220.220
  Address:    208.67.220.220#53
  
  Non-authoritative answer:
  which.opendns.com    text = "I am not an OpenDNS resolver."
  
  Authoritative answers can be found from:

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  rotblitz December 22, 2013 14:06

  Yes, your ISP redirects your DNS queries to their own DNS service.  Your router settings cannot take effect then.

  If you still want to use OpenDNS, try with DNSCrypt: http://dnscrypt.org/
  This may be able to circumvent your ISP's DNS redirection.

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  ritzie December 23, 2013 00:10

  Thanks rotblitz. Appreciate your help. Ill give dnscrypt a try.

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