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OpenDNS on FreshTomato

OpenDNS offers an alternative your ISP's/organization's own DNS servers. Both business- and consumer-grade services are available for any budget.

Using OpenDNS servers to perform your DNS resolutions can have many benefits, depending on the plan you choose:

  • Built-in protection to filter out malicious phishing & malware domains
  • Parental controls that protect every device in your home, instantly
  • Customizable or pre-configured content filtering, for example, adult content
  • Retention the past year of internet stats
  • Restrict Internet access to specific allowed domains for a “locked-down” environment


You can configure FreshTomato for OpenDNS in just a few steps:

  1. Go to the Network menu
  2. In the DNS Server dropdown, select Manual.
  3. Enter the two OpenDNS server addresses into the DNS1 and DNS2 fields.
  4. Click Save.


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Your FreshTomato router should now be using OpenDNS for DNS resolution. You can test this using the nslookup command, or by using OpenDNS' test page: OpenDNS Test Page

The features available to you will depend on which plan you signed up for.



opendns_on_tomato.1687900495.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/06/27 22:14 by hogwild