DNS not working on Hitron CODA-4582

daliahome · ‎09-11-2017

Hi,
I cleared the DNS cache on computer on browser. I added DNS servers 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 to my router yet nothing get filtered. My web filtering is set to high. My router is Hitron model CODA-4582.
I noticed one thing though, when I do whatismyipaddress I get IPv6 not IPv4, but when I use the whatip.me site I get both IPv4 and IPv6. In opendns the IP address I used was of course IPv4.

rotblitz · ‎09-12-2017

"when I do whatismyipaddress I get IPv6 not IPv4, but when I use the whatip.me site I get both IPv4 and IPv6."

If you have also IPv6 connectivity, you must also configure the addresses ::ffff:d043:dedc and ::ffff:d043:dcde as DNSv6 servers in the IPv6 settings.

If this does not help, copy & paste the complete plain text outputs of the following diagnostic commands to here, so that I can advise further:

nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
nslookup whoami.akamai.net.

Btw, you must flush your caches after you configure things, not before.

"My web filtering is set to high. My router is Hitron model CODA-4582."

Your dashboard settings are irrelevant as long as you do not use OpenDNS, i.e. as long as your DNS traffic does not go to OpenDNS but to your ISP's DNSv6 service.
http://welcome.opendns.com/
I cannot comment on your router, because I don't have this kind of device.

"DNS not working on Hitron CODA-4582"

DNS always works, else you could not work on the internet. It is likely that you don't use OpenDNS, but your ISP's. Also, DNS does not work on a router but is a service in the cloud, generally.

ramnaim · ‎01-06-2018

HI, when I try to set up an open DNS on my router manually, it asks me to add in the (DNS1, DNS2, IPv6 DNS1 & IPv6 DNS2). so which one would be the primary and secondary. shall I consider the primary DNS servers is DNS1 and the secondary DNS2?

and what is IPv6 DNS1&2 will be?

also, in my Gateway function, I can choose IPv4, IPv6 Or Dual. does this have anything to do while configuring the open DNS?

rotblitz · ‎01-06-2018

Primary and secondary do not matter. It's irrelevant. For the rest, I said it already. Again:

For IPv4 DNS servers use 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 OpenDNS resolver addresses.

For IPv6 DNS servers use ::ffff:d043:dedc and ::ffff:d043:dcde OpenDNS resolver addresses.

Try with dual if your ISP offers IPv6. Else, or if dual does not work, try with IPv4. Yes, it has to do with configuring OpenDNS. If you don't have IPv6 or dual connectivity, you don't need to configure DNSv6 resolver addresses.