How to enable dynamic IP updates for a network

Dynamic IPs are common, and OpenDNS supports dynamic IP addresses for networks.

To enable dynamic IP update, sign into your OpenDNS Dashboard, go to Settings and Set Up a Dynamic IP. Check the box and Apply.

After you've enabled dynamic IP updates for your OpenDNS network, you can choose to handle your changing IP in one of two ways--automatically, through a dynamic IP client, or manually through our Manual IP update button.

If you've enabled dynamic IP updating but not installed a dynamic IP client, you'll notice when your IP requires updating in your OpenDNS Dashboard Networks page. A Manual IP update button (green arrows icon) will appear between two IPs, your previous IP and your current IP. To update your IP, click on the Manual IP Update button. All of your network preferences, as well as associated shortcuts, domain blocks and adult web site filtering settings, will be applied to the new IP. Please wait 5-10 minutes for the network settings to propagate to our servers.

We suggest you use DNS-O-Matic, a new, free service from OpenDNS. DNS-O-Matic gives you an easy way to distribute your dynamic IP changes to multiple services with a single update. Keep dynamic DNS hostnames and OpenDNS updated at the same time.