Hello
As many others before me, I found out that I cannot change the DNS servers on my ConnectBox. I have read a number of articles in this community about the PiHole, however I do not use the Ziggo router at all, I have my own Netgear router which serves as the DHCP server for my house. But even if I have the DNS server there changed to OpenDNS, OpenDNS does not seem to receive my name lookup requests. It seems like the ConnectBox is enforcing its own DNS. I tried ConnectBox configuration in bridge mode, but even that did not help. I had one or two Ziggo technicians on the phone, but it was not fully conclusive what they said. Note that I switched to the ConnectBox just a week ago. My previous installation with Ubee work with OpenDNS just fine (but the Ubee was configured with OpenDNS).
Any idea whether Ziggo is actually overriding my DNS requests and forcing their own DNS, no matter whether the ConnextBox is in bridge mode or not?
Many thanks
Marek
Best beantwoord door hanh
Ah, I understand now that you use the special security features of OpenDNS, that also give you the option to monitor the DNS Requests to be handled If nothing comes in as expected then this is rather peculiar indeed.
I am not familiar with them, so I cannot even give a guess if something could be wrong with the settings of these features.
Same goes for DD-WRT DNS Settings.
As I understand the Dnsmasq feature gives you the opportunity to use the Router’s Gateway address as Caching DNS Server, that can be assigned to Systems in the network. This Server delegates the Requests to configurable DNS Servers like those from OpenDNS. You can consider this as a deliberate takeover, you control yourself.
If a System in your network has the right OpenDNS Servers assigned to it, there’s in my opinion generally not a kind of black magic way to overtake a DNS Request by another DNS-Server on the Route in the Internet. I can imagine a bit that a hacker could do this, but even then I do’nt see the advantage of doing so. Ziggo doesn’t; I’m confident about it.