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This is an old revision of ConfiguringYourComputer made by BrianKoontz on 2007-07-19 07:09:05.
Here are some basic instructions on configuring your personal computer to access the OpenNIC Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This page has, at the moment, instructions only for (in alphabetical order, to prevent religious arguments) BeOS, MacOS (with OpenTransport), a set that should work with most Unix and Unix-like systems and Windows 98/NT/2K. If you've configured a different operating system to use OpenDNS, please MailingLists post some instructions to the discussion list so we can expand this page.
General Information
If your ISP or network administrator, for some reason, refuses to add support for OpenDNS to your network's own name servers, OpenNIC is collecting volunteers who make their OpenDNS name servers available for anyone who needs to use them. Lists will be posted to the Announcements list, so if you need to use these public servers, please MailingLists subscribe to that list.
Note 1: In any place in the information below where you would normally see an IP number, those numbers have been replaced with a link to the page of VolunteerHosts Public Name Servers. Please see this list to choose the appropriate server for your use.
Note 2: Since most operating systems will use the DNS servers in the order in which it lists them, it is important that you put the OpenNIC servers first if you will be including non-OpenNIC servers in your list as well. This will guarantee that lookup attempts will go to the OpenNIC system before the ICANN (or other) system, and will thus resolve OpenNIC names correctly.
If you need to use one of the public Tier 0 through 2 servers, and you do not personally know its administrator, you will also need to join the MailingLists Announcements list (or join the MailingLists Discussion list) so you'll get notified of any changes to the server.
BeOS
- Select on BeOS menu->Preferences->Network
- Change the "Primary DNS:" entry to [server IP number]
- Change the "Secondary DNS:" entry to [server IP number]
- Click on the Save button
- You must restart Networking to activate the change
MacOS (with OpenTransport)
- Select on Apple menu->Control Panels->TCP/IP
- add [server IP number] to the Name Server addr. column
- Close the Control Panel, and accept Saving the changes
Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems
This includes most of the straight Unixes (like SunOS and Solaris) as well as their Free Software/Open Source cousins (such as Linux, GNU/Linux, and the *BSDs).
- Log on as, or su to, the root account
- Open your resolver config file (usually "/etc/resolv.conf") in your preferred editor
- Remove, or comment out with a "#" at the beginning of the line, all lines beginning with "nameserver"
- Add the following lines (you may have from 1 to 3 name servers specified in this file):
nameserver [server IP number]
nameserver [server IP number]
nameserver [server IP number]
* Save and exit; it should work at this point
Windows 98/NT/2K
* Click on Start menu->Settings->Control Panel
* Click on Network
* Select TCP/IP and click Properties
* Click on the DNS Configuration tab
* Add [server IP number] to the DNS server search order
* Press OK twice, and when asked to reboot, reboot
* Click on Network
* Select TCP/IP and click Properties
* Click on the DNS Configuration tab
* Add [server IP number] to the DNS server search order
* Press OK twice, and when asked to reboot, reboot
