Comments on SeanDaniel.com: Using OpenDNS with Windows Home Server

That's what Fix My Network wizard is designed for....

2009-05-23T18:06:32.051-07:00

That's what Fix My Network wizard is designed for. I wrote you back but your spam filter told me I couldn't email you.

oh well.

Thanks Sean! This was part of a bigger problem I ...

2009-05-23T11:44:44.492-07:00

Thanks Sean! This was part of a bigger problem I was having with DHCP / DNS. The Fix My Network Wizard truly DID fix my network (imagine that!), and then after setting the DNS Forwarders in SBS to OpenDNS (and spending hours researching why I should use root hints instead...only to find that really it's ok to use forwarders!) my clients started working again via DHCP.

Whew!

Of course, 15 minutes later when they stopped working *again* I managed to find the one port in my switch that was going wonky and unplugged it. :-)

Thanks again for the great information!

Hey Bill, If you have a dynamic IP on the WAN sid...

2009-05-22T14:56:11.854-07:00

Hey Bill,

If you have a dynamic IP on the WAN side, you'll need to install their service so they know you're you!

What I would do is set up your clients to talk to SBS DNS (this is by default if you use our DHCP server), and then change the DNS Forwarders in the SBS DNS server to OpenDNS.

No need to touch the router at all with SBS.

Another great and helpful post, Sean!! I, too, ha...

2009-05-22T14:45:04.532-07:00

Another great and helpful post, Sean!! I, too, have recently discovered OpenDNS, and after building a Windows 7 RC laptop, couldn't get to http://connect. Because of your post, I'm now in!

Two questions:
One: Do I need to setup my SBS2008 IP settings this way as well?

Two: WRT OpenDNS: where do you set those DNS servers? I've got my router (Endian Firewall) pointing to the OpenDNS server IPs; then I have my SBS2008 static IP settings pointing to the router for DNS, and have my clients pointing to my SBS server for DNS. Is that correct?