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1. #OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP INSTALL#
2. #OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP UPDATE#
3. #OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP SERIES#
4. #OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP FREE#

However, I've recently learned that it will apply sweeping censorship to entire swaths of IP addresses, without the vast majority of users' consent. The heart of the problem is that OpenDNS has a parental control feature.

#OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP FREE#

While this may sound like a good thing - barring the fact that it can be easily bypassed by any kid with half a brain these days - the issue is that it applies by IP address with nothing but a free registration, and will never stop applying to that IP. In other words, let's say Overprotective Parent X decides that little Billy's development is being harmed by all those porn sites. And any site that hosts any adult content, even if it's user-submitted and not the intent of the site as a whole. And while we're at it, websites about video games, politics, religion, dating, shopping, and news. These are all categories that OpenDNS allows you to block.įirst, O.P.X. registers a free OpenDNS account, right here. It requires even less personal information than the likes of Google or Microsoft accounts do these days, which means they might as well be Anonymous V. Anonymoose for all anyone will be able to tell later. Then, later, O.P.X.'s home IP address changes, because dynamic IPs exist. This likely happens frequently, especially if O.P.X. The settings are still on the old IP, and cannot be disabled or changed without contacting OpenDNS support personally, which in my experience, takes days to respond to such tickets. Now some other poor sap has O.P.X.'s previous IP and parental control settings. is as persistent as it is stupid, and upon finding that the settings are gone, they set them again.

#OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP INSTALL#

Opendns updater tool install#īut this time, they install a dynamic IP sync tool, which automatically applies their settings to EVERY IP ADDRESS THEY'RE EVER ASSIGNED. The end result is that the parental control settings of a single user will spread like a cancer through the entire IP range of your provider, and anyone using OpenDNS within that range will be unable to uncensor the web unless they can figure out what's going on and wait out a multi-day support ticket from OpenDNS. Which, by the way, might not solve the problem, because OpenDNS will RE-apply the settings if O.P.X. TL DR: OpenDNS parental controls are assigned by IP address and enforced on ALL OpenDNS users with that IP. Can't be disabled by anyone but tech support, which takes days to respond to requests. Can prohibit innocuous websites just as easily as porn. Can be set up with a dynamic IP client to spread the settings like cancer to EVERY IP the user EVER gets, automatically. TL DR: The Dynamic IP Updater should solve your issue, see: It seems to work well as an alternative so far - and doesn't have a parental control feature. It’s an unfortunate truth that some of our users don't keep their IP addresses up to date.

Because our filters are applied to networks based on their registered IP addresses, if you inherit that already registered IP address, the filters for those networks will be applied to your computers if you're using OpenDNS and have not updated your own registered IP address.

We have tools to deal with this, and the best tool we have is the Dynamic IP Updater, found here. This tool updates your registered network's IP address when it changes, and is meant to be run on a computer in your network that generally doesn't leave it.

#OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP UPDATE#

We recommend this to ensure that you don't update your IP address accidentally when you go down to the coffee shop to get some work done. If the Updater Client isn't working, we always encourage our users to reach out to our support team at for some help we can always clear old registered IP addresses so that you can use our service as you intend.OpenDNS provides Internet users with a free Domain Name System service accessible from any host, regardless of the network IP address used to send the request.

#OPENDNS UPDATER CLIENT IP NOT MY IP SERIES#

This DNS system is gaining popularity with millions of users since it offers a series of advantages not supplied by traditional DNS services offered by Internet Service Providers. This document lists the advantages of using OpenDNS and provides configuration instructions for Zeroshell Router/Firewall. Additionally, Zeroshell has an updater that updates OpenDNS with the dynamic IP assigned to the router.