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[davevt31]

I'm a PC, so I have no clue on installing MAC Stuff 

[Lycan]

Direct Media is the holder of OpenDNS. They are OpenDNS servers.

[EddieZ]

Direct Media is the holder of OpenDNS. They are OpenDNS servers.

Told everybody in another thread to hold their horses, but this is 'checkmate' 

[arbalet]

1. OpenDNS has these IPs: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, not 204. etc.
2. There is "Direct Media" and "302 Direct Media"
3. In any case, why don't DLink say what that is? It MUST be said EXPLICITLY in the manual , in the router help and in FAQ!

IT'S THE SECURITY, STUPID!

Cheers

[EddieZ]

1. OpenDNS has these IPs: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, not 204. etc.
2. There is "Direct Media" and "302 Direct Media"
3. In any case, why don't DLink say what that is? It MUST be said EXPLICITLY in the manual , in the router help and in FAQ!

IT'S THE SECURITY, STUPID!

Cheers

Ever considered a 'close reading course'? The IP's in the Dlink are private OpenDNS ip's. They have already explained what the IP's are. It's some Kafkaësk paranoia that's seems to have struck you (and others). 

DLINK JUST SEEMS TO HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH OPENDDNS TO GET THEM PRIVATE OPENDDNS IP'S.
Just like Netgear (or  whatever B-brand), but Dlink is not (yet) exploiting this in commercials/ads.

[dcurrey]

If these are opendns servers hows about going a little further with the integration.  I have an opendns account have the router update my ip with them automatically so I can keep my custom opendsn settings.  I have never bothered to install any client software on computer so most of the time I am getting basic usage.  This would solve that.

Basically the same way the router updates my account with dyndns.

[lotacus]

Yes I have already requested this feature in the dyndns page

[summerstormpictures]

...DLINK JUST SEEMS TO HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH OPENDDNS TO GET THEM PRIVATE OPENDDNS IP'S.

This is intriguing. What would the benefits of this be out of curiosity? I'm not baiting this issue. I'm wondering if there are added benefits specific to a D-Link hardware owner that make this option better than my own OpenDNS account. Speed? Reliability? Primarily I ask this because there is nothing on the help pages for this whatsoever.

I use OpenDNS and am generally happy. I did have to add custom information on the ''Tools/Dynamic DNS'' page drop-down to facilitate automatic updating for OpenDNS (''Server Address: updates.dnsomatic.com'' and ''Host Name: all.dnsomatic.com''). It would be nice by the way to have OpenDNS already provided for in the drop-down.

[EddieZ]

This is intriguing. What would the benefits of this be out of curiosity? I'm not baiting this issue. I'm wondering if there are added benefits specific to a D-Link hardware owner that make this option better than my own OpenDNS account. Speed? Reliability? Primarily I ask this because there is nothing on the help pages for this whatsoever.

I use OpenDNS and am generally happy. I did have to add custom information on the ''Tools/Dynamic DNS'' page drop-down to facilitate automatic updating for OpenDNS (''Server Address: updates.dnsomatic.com'' and ''Host Name: all.dnsomatic.com''). It would be nice by the way to have OpenDNS already provided for in the drop-down.

It's optional, you can change it back to whatever DNS you want to use. Personally I think there could be some speed benefits, the regular OpenDNS servers are not the fastest (probably) due to the amount of users (measured it against other free DNS    ). Or maybe these DNS addresses also are used by SecureSpot and thrown in as a bonus. I don't use SecureSpot so I cannot check.