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How to change the DNS server on the Motorola NVG589 router?
Hello, I recently switch from DSL to U-verse and I was using OpenDNS for web content filtering. With OpenDNS you just change your router to use the OpenDNS DNS servers, then any device connecting to your network gets filtered. Now that we switched to Uverse the Uverse router is our main router. I cannot find any way to override the DNS server served up with DHCP to be OpenDNS servers. So does anyone know how to change the DNS server given in DHCP requests of the Motorola NVG589 router? I'm running software version 9.1.0h4d38
If changing DNS server address in DHCP response is not an option, I guess the other option would be to turn off the DHCP server on the Uverse modem, and bring up another DHCP server on the network where DNS would be configureable. So if someone could reply on how to disable the DHCP server on the Motorola NVG589 that would help as well.
JefferMC
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7 years ago
Or, you can accept the Gateway for what it is, a modem with a very lightweight (functionality-wise) router welded to it, and provide your own router if you need anything more than it can provide for you.
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astansbery
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5 years ago
The problem is @Jeffer that Crapways are hard coded so people that know what they are doing can't change what they need so are forced to place another device between it and their internal network. If AT&T wouldn't gimp these things they would be great devices. Even a competent network tech can't access the CLI interface that ARRIS built into these things. I have see an ARRIS manual for one of these. And they are capable of what many customers are asking but AT&T gimped them because in the 2Wire days before a significant firmware update. People were actually getting into the admin interface of those things and changing their internet speeds + TV access. They are taking the block everyone approach instead of allowing the things that a business may need. Or just a Prosumer that has specific needs. Coax cable ISP's don't pull this crap but AT&T does. It's AT&T forcing all customer DNS queries through them (so they can track you easier) unless you are willing to take the time to configure (or have to) a router between your network and theirs. I understand it for Uverse TV. But a simple hard code in those devices would fix that. But for any other device. Not needed. To say "use it for what it was designed for" is uneducated and weak.
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JefferMC
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5 years ago
@astansbery, it doesn't really matter why, what matters is that is that it is. The customer AT&T firmware will not let you change the DNS settings it uses, or hands out. The only way to hand out your own is to put another router between it and your clients.
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