What prevents you from configuring this router for OpenDNS use?
From your manual at https://www.dlinkmea.com/upload/downloadable/9434-DWR-921_A1_Manual_v1.01(WW).pdf
For mobile connections it may look like this:
"If we're running wi-fi, the LAN side is meaningless, eh?"
What? WiFi / WLAN is the LAN side, same as ethernet wired connected. Its just radio waves instead of cupper cable. What else? But you configure OpenDNS on the WAN side. No need to configure it on the LAN side.
Thanks for the quick help.
My UI is totally different.
I don't have the options you've given above.
I can either select DHCP or 4G (from amongst other choices), not both.
The DHCP has the usual primary / secondary DNS fields.
But the 4G does not, and I need to run on 4G.
Curiously, there are DNS settings elsewhere in the interface, but with only five DNS options given.
See the pictures attached.
But maybe your LAN suggestion can still win the day.
If I put in OpenDNS on the LAN side in my router - can you confirm that will affect wi-fi?
I guess I don't understand how the LAN settings work.
See image attached for my LAN
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"My UI is totally different.
I don't have the options you've given above."
Are you saying you have a different router model, or that D-Link's documentation is crap? Then sorry, I rather ran out of ideas. You'll have to refer to D-Link support. I don't have a D-Link router and must trust their documentation which I did...
Regardless, if you can configure DNS servers on the LAN side, then do it!
"If I put in OpenDNS on the LAN side in my router - can you confirm that will affect wi-fi?"
Sorry, I hate to repeat what I already said.
"See image attached for my LAN "
I don't see DNS server fields there. Is it possibly under DHCP where it should belong to?
Please note, if you configure external DNS resolver addresses on the LAN/DHCP side, then internal name resolution will be impacted or broken. Just that you are aware and not to surprise you. If internal name resolution is unimportant for you, then it is not an issue though.
Forget about the last picture, this is unrelated to configuring DNS. It is about Dynamic DNS (DDNS), and the listed services do not include the ones being needed to update OpenDNS with your IP address information.
Therefore you must run an Updater on a computer.
Thanks again for the quick reply. Really appreciated.
"Are you saying you have a different router model, or that D-Link's documentation is crap?"
It's a DWR-921, but w/ a different UI.
Looks like it's a different HW + SW version number. Manual here:
https://www.dlinkmea.com/upload/downloadable/DWR_921_C3_Manual_v1_00_WW__59103a4d47ac0.pdf
Edited: Thanks for leading me to the manual, btw.
Re the LAN, yes, sorry for the wrong photo! The one I meant to share is below.
What does internal name resolution affect? We need nothing fancier than the ability to surf the internet.
"I can either select DHCP or 4G (from amongst other choices), not both.
The DHCP has the usual primary / secondary DNS fields.
But the 4G does not, and I need to run on 4G."
Well, your manual says it differently. There are also DNS server fields with 4G:
If this is different on your router (because this other documentation is still crap), then enter the OpenDNS resolver addresses in the DHCP settings as of your last screen shot.
Then establish the WiFi/WLAN connection on the end user devices from anew, and test at http://welcome.opendns.com/ if you're using OpenDNS then.
"What does internal name resolution affect?"
Guess what, it affects internal name resolution. This is needed when you try to connect from one device in your LAN to another by name, like to another computer, printer, NAS, DVR, smart home device, IP camera, etc., even to the router. As long as you connect by IP address instead of by name, there will be no problem.
