System not doing anything. Not filtering any websites.

[cito1]

I followed all the instructions but the program does not seem to be doing anything.  It seemed very easy to set up but then nothing happens.  Nothing is filtered.

I see some people sharing stuff about running some commands.  Where do we run those?  Terminal?  Not sure what I'm missing.  

Also, I'm using Utopia Fiber through X-mission in Utah.  My router is an Apple extreme base station.

static IP

[rotblitz]

Following up from https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360031831352/comments/360003143272

Yes, there's only one place where you can run commands on Mac OSX: the terminal window, of course.

nslookup -type=txt debug.opendns.com.
nslookup whoami.akamai.net.
ifconfig -a         (Mac OSX)

[cito1]

Thank you for responding but I think I'm way behind.  Is there something I need to set up in my router for the OpenDNS to start working?

If so what? 

I input all three commands you set above and the terminal spits out a bunch of stuff but I'm not sure I'm making much sense of it all.

[rotblitz]

As I said before, you need to copy & paste the complete plain text output of the diagnostic commands to here, so that I can review it to tell you what went wrong.  You do not need to question the sense of it.  I will do it for you.

And yes, you need to configure your router to use OpenDNS.  This is most important.
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228006427

[cito1]

I just figured it out.  Nowhere during the signup and configuration process were there any instructions to change the DNS settings on my router.  

I know this probably sounds totally elementary to you all but until I changed that nothing did anyting. I changed it and now things work.  

It would be helpful if on the welcome e-mail it said:  change the DNS settings of your router to 208...... etc.  

I know I probably should gotten the hint from the name of the product (openDNS) lol but I just didn't know to change that.

[rotblitz]

Weird how you could find a way to subscribe without hitting the step to configure OpenDNS on the router or on a device.  This essential step is where you stumble over everywhere.  If you receive a welcome e-mail, you are already far behind that first and most important step.

Whatever, glad to hear that it works for you now!