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Originally Posted by stumped
My experience was slightly different . Go to wireless advanced, modify... Set static IP. Ok.set end. I can type in both open end values but then Google is immediately appended ( as soon as you leave the field and return to network details screen)so I have 3 values.
See here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8...g-dns-t4008907
Test
I go to taboola.com, blocked in my opendns filters and it still appears. Same with outbrain.com
My test is to block a site or a category in opendns filters then see if it stays blocked.
NB I cannot edit my router DNS. Locked by my ISP, virginmedia |
I don't have the latest OS with three DNS fields if that's what you were saying. It's pretty straightforward with two DNS fields. The only issue was it was difficult to physically enter the OpenDNS digits without doing what I described. From the XDA thread, it looks like Android or Amazon has made it harder to use one's preferred DNS server.
However, the sites that OpenDNS should have been blocking weren't being blocked even though the only entry for a DNS server was OpenDNS.
So I went to my Windows desktop, and made sure that the DNS was OpenDNS. The blocked domains in my OpenDNS dashboard also resolved on Windows. Then I remembered OpenDNS wasn't using my current IP, but after I fixed that, there was still no blocking using the Windows machine.
I think it must be an OpenDNS issue, or I have not set-up OpenDNS correctly. It doesn't seem to be a Fire issue. By setting a bogus DNS server in the advanced wireless settings on the Fire and observing that no domains resolve, and then setting 208.67.222.222 and observing that all domains are then resolved, I am confident that the tablet is sending DNS queries to the server that is manually entered in the advanced settings. I don't know why OpenDNS isn't blocking. Could there be a new IP for OpenDNS's server that you're supposed to use? I haven't played with this in more than a year.
" I cannot edit my router DNS."
I think the DNS setting on a device always overrides the router setting. That's always been the case for me, but I read on the XDA thread that there is some very complicated stuff going on that I know nothing about.