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I had my Asus router doling out IP addresses automatically using Google's DNSes. I decided to try OpenDNS. My Asus' WAN settings Basic Config WAN Connection type is set to Automatic IP. Enable WAN is set to yes. Enable NAT yes. Enable UPnP yes (I'm not sure I need the last two, actually, I'm not sure about all the settings, and that's why I'm here).
I then went over to the LAN settings, in the DHCP Server settings, enabled yes, I left the IP pool starting address that was set to 192.168.50.2 and the ending address to 192.168.50.254.
I changed the google DNSes in the DNS and WINS Server Setting to the OpenDNS main and alternate IPs.
I set Advertise router's IP in addition to user specified DNS to no, and left WINS server blank.
setting manual assignment to no
Back in the WAN page, I don't recall ever Assigning the DNS Server. Anyway, OpenDNS is not in the list. If I did so, I'm sure I used the manual assignment for the OpenDNS IP settings. Now they show as the assigned DNS Server in the WAN DNS Setting section of the Internet Connection tab in the router.
I flushed the dns and did an nslookup to confirm that opendns was set as the DNS server.
I went back to log in to the OpenDNS dashboard, and after some surfing I did a displaydns. A lot of stuff came in. Then finally I went to the OpenDNS dashboard (where I had set my local server using my ISP leased IP address.
I installed the IP address updater.
Everything seems to be working fine. I see my stats on the OpenDNS dashboard and am beginning to experiment with more granular settings.
What makes me worry is that message in the router about not being able to use the protection of the privacy servers.
Can anyone give me some help on this?
I then went over to the LAN settings, in the DHCP Server settings, enabled yes, I left the IP pool starting address that was set to 192.168.50.2 and the ending address to 192.168.50.254.
I changed the google DNSes in the DNS and WINS Server Setting to the OpenDNS main and alternate IPs.
I set Advertise router's IP in addition to user specified DNS to no, and left WINS server blank.
setting manual assignment to no
Back in the WAN page, I don't recall ever Assigning the DNS Server. Anyway, OpenDNS is not in the list. If I did so, I'm sure I used the manual assignment for the OpenDNS IP settings. Now they show as the assigned DNS Server in the WAN DNS Setting section of the Internet Connection tab in the router.
I flushed the dns and did an nslookup to confirm that opendns was set as the DNS server.
I went back to log in to the OpenDNS dashboard, and after some surfing I did a displaydns. A lot of stuff came in. Then finally I went to the OpenDNS dashboard (where I had set my local server using my ISP leased IP address.
I installed the IP address updater.
Everything seems to be working fine. I see my stats on the OpenDNS dashboard and am beginning to experiment with more granular settings.
What makes me worry is that message in the router about not being able to use the protection of the privacy servers.
Can anyone give me some help on this?