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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: comet on May 29, 2021, 05:28:59 PM

Title: How do you set OPNsense to use a different DNS than your ISP's?
Post by: comet on May 29, 2021, 05:28:59 PM
Sometimes what should be the simplest questions are the hardest ones to find an answer to.  I just want to set it so that when OPNsense goes out to get updates, etc. it uses Google's DNS rather than my ISP's, because my ISP's DNS is horribly slow.  I am hoping that you do not have to make changes in Unbound, because it seems that when people do that they then have all kinds of DNS issues.

I found these settings, if I just enter the DNS I want to use in those fields will that be sufficient, or is that for some other purpose entirely?

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Title: Re: How do you set OPNsense to use a different DNS than your ISP's?
Post by: pankaj on May 29, 2021, 05:48:17 PM
If you want to change DNS setting system wide then look under System ==> Settings ==> General, there is a section for DNS servers and option to disallow overwriting by DHCP on the WAN side.

HTH.