First, a little background...

Many of us like OpenDNS because you can configure it to *not* present a help page when trying to connect to a non-existent domain name.  Earthlink's DNS, for example, will resolve non-existent domain names so that they can direct you to a help page.

This really sucks if you need to be sure a domain name is good or not.

Anyway, the easiest, cleanest way to work around this in Kamikaze:

Create a file called /etc/resolv.conf.opendns

in that file, put:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

Now, in /etc/dnsmasq.conf, change the line:

resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.conf.auto

to

resolv-file=/etc/resolv.conf.opendns

...and reboot.

This will work for anytime you need to *not* use the DNS servers provided by your ISP.

Enjoy!

Thanks a lot for the tip !

I am running an ASUS WL-500W with OpenWrt Kamikaze 7.09/X-WRT and I can't get this to work, after the changes are done I can't access the web without forcing manually a DNS address, did anyone else had this problem?

Thanks

Hello,

I did this for my work around since the first post didnt work for me on my Asus 500gp.

edit /etc/rc.d/S60dnsmasq

add the following to DNS_SERVERS=""

DNS_SERVERS="208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220"

save the file then run
/etc/rc.d/S60dnsmasq restart

check resolv.conf

root@OpenWrt:/etc/rc.d# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 127.0.0.1
root@OpenWrt:/etc/rc.d#

should now have setup openDNS on openwrt

(Last edited by digitalexpl0it on 16 Aug 2009, 05:11)