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This is an old revision of ConfiguringYourComputer made by BrianKoontz on 2007-07-25 13:43:37.
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 add it to 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.
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.
BeOS
- Select on BeOS menu->Preferences->Network
- Change the "Primary DNS:" entry to [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP number]
- Change the "Secondary DNS:" entry to [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 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 [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP address] to the Name Server addr. column
- Close the Control Panel, and accept Saving the changes
Mac OSX
- Apple menu -> System Preferences... -> Network
- Show dropdown: Select either "Built-in Ethernet" or "AirPort" depending on type of network connection
- Click TCP/IP button
- Enter one or more VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP addresses in "DNS Servers" textarea (separate each with Enter)
- Select "Apply Now"
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 [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP number]
nameserver [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP number]
nameserver [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 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 [VolunteerHosts Tier 2 server IP number] to the DNS server search order
- Press OK twice, and when asked to reboot, reboot
