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Huge internal debate and no definitive answer can be found. Can the two OpenDNS servers be used as external forwarders by a business entity? If not, is there a simple plan/subscription that allows just the use of these as recursive DNS servers for a ...

JLW52761 by Community Member
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I have signed up for the Open DNS VIP to use the Whitelist-Only feature on my home network. However, I only want to use the whitelist on individual devices. This means that I have to change the DNS settings on the individual devices. I did this and i...

Hi,I've been using OPENDNS and Linux IP UPDATER without issue until recently (AFAIK). I changed my password a few weeks ago and last week I realized the IP address wasn't changing. In troubleshooting, I realized I neglected to also change my password...

I am experiencing problems with the OpenDNS Updater.   The most recent section of the log.txt shows the following: -------- startingsent ip update for user 'redacted-for-privacy@outlook.com', response: 'nohost' url: /nic/update?token=redacted-for-pri...

JayAgeNC by Level 1
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I went to the sites that check, and I get all the right messages.  So I know I have the DNS servers set up correctly.   However, nothing gets blocked.  I have my settings set to 'high', and still nothing gets blocked.  It was working great when I fir...

johnandrus by Level 1
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I was a long-time user of OpenDNS when I used Windows but I have migrated to the Linux Ubuntu distribution and will use other distributions on other pc's. Please let me know what I can do to obtain content filtering for these OS

RAVC by Level 1
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Hi everyone,Four hours ago, I set up an OpenDNS Home account on my home router. I configured both DNS addresses in the settings and installed the OpenDNS Updater on my Windows PC to update the dynamic IP. In the dashboard, I set the filtering level t...

tgr9 by Level 1
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Hi,After playing with this all night, and reading most of the posts about it, I couldn't understand if IPV6 filtering (for openDns family) will work. I'll start from the end: when disabling ipv6 (https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/22798888...

yaniv123 by Level 1
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I’ve found that blocking no longer works on my Apple devices. Possibly since upgrading to iOS 17, unsure. I can confirm that my DNS server is giving the devices the IP address of the OpenDNS landing page, but somehow they’re still loading the pages t...

darren1234 by Level 1
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