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Thanks go to the author of the post, efaden The openDNS script was taken from the Mikrotik forum. "Update openDNS Account" on-event=OpenDNS policy=\ The below command line will configure a scheduler named “Update openDNS Account” which will be set to run every hour.Īdd comment="Update Open DNS Dynamic IP" disabled=no interval=1h name=\

Next we need to schedule the above script to run at an interval, say 1 hour.

\n user=\"\$openDNSUsername\" password=\"\$openDNSPassword\" \\\r\ \n/tool fetch url=\"\?system=dyndns&hostname=\$openDNSHostname\" \\\r\ A script will be created and named OpenDNS.Īdd name=OpenDNS policy=read,test source="#\r\

Copy and Paste the below script in a terminal window on your router and make sure that you change the details in the variables openDNSUsername, openDNSPassword & openDNSHostname.

Configure the DNS servers and disable PeerDNS as explained earlier.

Ensure that the label set-up in openDNS is marked as dynamic.

To do this on a MikroTik router you need to:

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I decided that this update should be done by the router since it is always connected. When you have a dynamic address, like in most cases, you need to run an agent on a computer, connected to the home network, that will update your profile if your IP address changes. The IP is used to identify you such that the filtering rules you set are applied. Your current IP address will be bound to this label. Once you set-up an account, you have to label the IP address you are connecting with. To be able to control which content is allowed and which is blocked, you need to set-up an account on. You will not have control on what is blocked and what is allowed. This will provide you with basic filtering.

To configure your router to use the openDNS servers type.

interface pppoe-client set use-peer-dns=no 0 To disable PeerDNS on a PPPoE client interface, similarly type

Now we will disable using PeerDNS on DHCP client 0.

In this case there is only one DHCP client. The output should look something like this:

we will list all the dhcp clients that are running.

To disable the PeerDNS on an internet facing interface that uses a DHCP client: To set-up a MikroTik router to use these servers, you first need to make sure that you are not using your ISP’s, Peer, DNS servers. OpenDNS allows you to use their servers without registering. Many times there are a lot of children connecting tablets and similar devices to these networks,especially if the WiFi is available in public places, and therefore it is very important that the users can safely browse the internet.

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I have used their servers both at home and at customers who offer free WiFi access to their customers. When using HTTP proxy, the requests might come from a different computer, which will have a different IP address and OpenDNS service will not be able to apply your filtering settings.If you haven’t heard about openDNS, it is a service which offers free web filtering DNS servers. OpenDNS service recognizes your computer by IP address from which DNS requests are made and applies your filtering settings based on that information. This happens most often when you use an HTTP proxy. If you believe this IP address really belongs to you, you can contact support. If you're temporarily using someone else's network connection, you can ignore this error. If you use someone else's connection which is already configured to use the OpenDNS service, we then detect that more than one OpenDNS account claims to use the same IP address. Each OpenDNS user is uniquely identified by an IP address. public wireless hotspot, a friend's wireless network etc.). This happens most often when using someone else's network (e.g. Your IP address belongs to a different network

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Only OpenDNS's servers know how to resolve this particular address so if we don't get the right response, we assume that OpenDNS service is not being used. Learn how to configure a computer to use OpenDNS service.įor technically minded: the program determines if your computer is using OpenDNS service by trying to resolve address using your DNS server. Your computer or network is not configured to use OpenDNS service. This is a potential error that can be remedied by logging in again to the Dynamic IP Updater Client. On Windows, you're seeing the error message, "Your Authentication token is invalid."