Like the rest of the world, we noted with interest the announcement of the iPhone at yesterday’s Macworld keynote.
By “noted with interest” I really mean “we all are crushed it’s not available yet.” 
As soon as the device is available in the wild, we’ll write instructions about how to switch the DNS settings to OpenDNS nameservers. In fact, I’ve selflessly (?) volunteered to purchase the device for the sole (ahem) purpose of writing these instructions.
Would this count as a “business” expense?!?
Joachim
Sure, if you need a German translation for the instructions I could help you in exchange with such a necessary tool to contact you.
I’d really have to check the instructions live.
Joachim
posted on January 10th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Daniel Aleksandersen
…I can help with Norwegian nynorsk and bokmål localisations of the instructions, if needed. ^^
Do your really think you can specify DNS servers on this thing? I mean… It is an Apple gadget! They are all locked down and limited by digital restriction management technology so you cannot really customise them that much!
posted on January 10th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
John Roberts
Daniel, no one knows yet. But looking forward to finding out.
Appreciate both your and Joachim’s offer.
posted on January 10th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Lokiz0r
Daniel;
The iPod is one of the most open devices on the market - in terms of firmware, anyway - Rockbox is a fine example.
I would think that the iPhone will allow customisation of DNS servers; perhaps not on certain internet profiles pre-defined and locked by phone networks, but certainly on wifi connections (as these credentials would need to be manually defined to work in certain situations).
posted on January 12th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Ilgaz
Mr. Roberts, you wouldn’t want to be blamed for entire West Coast USA cellular networks going down
Apple said it doesn’t allow 3rd party on the phone because of horrible scenarios like that, as a J2ME 2.0 and Ex Symbian order, I was horrified what would happen if any of these useful 3rd party apps “down” my cellular network!
Here is slashdot article with developers response:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/0430200
I personally stay away from anything I can’t install third party apps since my first Siemens C55 J2ME 1.0 phone.
posted on January 13th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Except
Well, the only problem with the MacPhone is that it’s only Cingular. Too bad for Apple…closing themselves in…again. When they could be making more $$ for their stockholders.
posted on January 15th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Raa'Shaun H.
Truth is, I’m using a Cingular 8125 and I have multiple third-party apps on my phone (some of them self written) and I haven’t ‘taken down’ the network here in the midwest. In fact, I’m using an Internet Connection Sharing utility to use my phone as a modem for the laptop that I’m typing this on right now ^_^
posted on January 16th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Dave Crossland
Perhaps you should consider making instructions for the FIC Neo1974 handset, and all other phones that will run the OpenMoko GNU/Linux system. It is very similar to the iPhone, except that it uses Free Software - where you can certainly set your own DNS servers!
http://www.openmoko.com
posted on January 22nd, 2007 at 8:15 am
Andrew Langhorn
Just to let you all know… you can set custom DNS servers using the iPhone’s GUI: it’s a two minute job.
posted on May 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am
John Roberts
@Andrew… appreciate the good news. We’ll look to test this personally sometime next month (inventory willing!).
posted on May 21st, 2007 at 11:20 am
Andrew Escobar
OpenDNS work amazingly well on the iPhone.
The iPhone has some trouble determining proper DNS settings, so when on my wireless network domains wouldn’t resolve to IP addresses. Switching to OpenDNS did the trick:
Change iPhone’s Wi-Fi DNS Settings to Connect to the Internet
http://andrewescobar.com/archive/2007/07/06/change-iphones-wi-fi-dns-settings-to-connect-to-the-internet/
(warning, URL may break if across two lines)
posted on July 6th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Conal Garrity
Any update on this?
posted on March 12th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Andrea Picchi
Same here..
If you need help for an italian translation, drop a line!
posted on January 1st, 2009 at 9:06 am
joker999
Been 2 years and nothing coming up?
since Jan 10th, 2007
i wanna use OpenDns on my iphone , you can try with jailbreak.
posted on January 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Jerry Huber
Hi All,
Has anyone been successful using Open DNS for their iPhone “out in the wild?”
I”m about to switch myself & my family from Sprint to ATT and we will move into the iPhone world. Need some help if anyone has been successful…Thanks!
jerry
posted on February 2nd, 2010 at 7:53 am