Can Airport Extreme be configured to update OpenDNS with Dynamic IP address?

[jprokos]

Some routers allow users to update their dynamic public IP address with OpenDNS. This feature is not immediately apparent in the Airport Extreme preferences.

Is it possible using the "Dynamic Global Hostname" settings in Airport Utility to accomplish this? If not directly with OpenDNS could we use third party credentials, ex. DYNdns, to udpate our current public IP with OpenDNS via DNSoMatic?

The reason I ask is I have children with ChromeBooks from school that I need to censor at home. The school network has content blocking on it, but our network does not and I am not an administrator on their ChromeBooks - the school is. At home we share one network with one set of rules other than I connect to a VPN and when I do that the OpenDNS client running on my computer forwards OpenDNS my VPN IP address which of course is different than the cable company provided IP address the rest of the network is using. I can't run the OpenDNS client on their ChromeBooks - I am not admin.

[rotblitz]

"Is it possible using the "Dynamic Global Hostname" settings in Airport Utility to accomplish this?"

I believe this "Bonjour and DNS Service Discovery" feature is a pure proprietary Apple feature which cannot be used for anything else but for Remote Access to Apple environments.

"If not directly with OpenDNS could we use third party credentials, ex. DYNdns, to udpate our current public IP with OpenDNS via DNSoMatic?"

If you want to perform OpenDNS IP address updates from a router, then this router must support at least one of these service options: OpenDNS, DNS-O-Matic or "user defined".  The third is the best, because it makes you independent from any fixed service options.

"I connect to a VPN and when I do that the OpenDNS client running on my computer forwards OpenDNS my VPN IP address which of course is different than the cable company provided IP address the rest of the network is using."

For this there is an easy solution.  Uninstall the OpenDNS Updater and use Marc's Updater instead.  With this Updater you can determine under what conditions (LAN IP address space or SSID) you want to perform updates.