Phones, PDAs, and every other mobile device smaller than a laptop and bigger than an iPod Shuffle needs DNS for web browsing, among other things. With speedier networks, the mobile web is getting more and more useful…and speedy DNS makes the experience better. Frankly, I had forgotten this obvious use of OpenDNS, until we started seeing our users comment on websites devoted to mobile devices.
Thanks for the reminder!
Change your mobile to OpenDNS
Today, we added instructions about how to change DNS on your mobile device, with our first entries covering Windows Mobile and Palm OS 5 (Treo).
Help us provide more details
Mobile devices are even more numerous and diverse than routers, so I’d love your help in two areas.
First: let us know which other devices most need instructions for changing to OpenDNS. Please include carriers and countries, if informative.
Second: if you’d like to write instructions to share your personal knowledge, I’d welcome the assistance. Send instructions and/or screenshots to our contact email address or link to instructions in the comments here.
Note: I’m still working out how I might expense a Sony PSP so I can write up instructions about how to use OpenDNS on this (ahem) “productivity” device.
Dan
For those of you with a BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server):
http://edefence.ca/techblog/2006/09/how-to-enable-opendns-on-your.html
posted on September 6th, 2006 at 4:44 am
John Roberts
Thanks, Dan.
I just found some discussion around Motorola Q phones. Have not been able to test/try myself since I use a Treo, but if we can verify, we’ll write something up ourselves.
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/motorola-q/latest-speed-hack-make-your-web-browsing-fly-1380.html
and
http://www.qusers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4642&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
posted on September 7th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Dan_Chi
It works pretty well on my w810 Sony Ericsson phone. I was able to add it by going to the menu, then settings, then Connectivity, then Data Comm, hit edit for the profile you use, then scroll down to DNS Address.
posted on September 7th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Eric
“rent” a PSP from Wal-Mart
posted on September 11th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Terry Whalen
I’d like to use it for my blackberry – I don’t use a blackberry enterprise server, just pop mail…
–terry
posted on September 12th, 2006 at 9:12 am
OpenDNS 4 at Anything will do …
[...] And today i found out that it can also be use on mobile phones as well, though the configuration help page does not mention about my mobile phone model and i just give it a try on my own/way. [...]
posted on September 16th, 2006 at 2:46 am
Valthonis
I’m a PSP owner, and I’ve setup my default wireless networking options to use OpenDNS via manual configuration. Sadly, the latest PSP firmware does not allow you to let your IP be assigned via DHCP *and* manually assign a batch of static DNS servers at the same time. It’s either all automatic, or all manual. That’s something Sony should put in the next firmware, methinks. The manual thing works just dandy in my apartment where I control the network (the router uses OpenDNS as well), but I’d have to manually configure for OpenDNS at any foreign hotspot I used. :-/
posted on September 19th, 2006 at 12:16 am
snehal
me usin this on my 3 servers. this works really great. even tested on my nokia 6630 its cool.
posted on November 14th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Brandon
Those BlackBerry instructions you posted will only affect your computer when you are using your BlackBerry as a modem.
This will use OpenDNS for the computer using the BlackBerry, not for browsing on the BlackBerry itself.
I do not beleive there is a way to change the DNS settings on the BlackBerry itself as of the most current OS version, this probably has to do with the way the BB Browser works as it all goes through the special BB proxy servers for everything, they heavily cache, compress, and resize images and pages before they are transfered to the BlackBerry. For tcp/ip connections there is no reason you cannot change the DNS Server, although there is no option to do so.
(BES is different)
posted on December 18th, 2006 at 1:34 am