How to setup your router’s DNS?

After buying a router, do you know how to set up a DNS in it? In most cases, we know how to modify our computer’s DNS in the network settings. In fact, the router’s DNS address can also be modified. For example, if you plan to set up an internal VPN network, you need to modify your router’s DNS address. So, how to set it up in the router?

Let’s take a normal router as an example. The detailed steps are as follows:

1. At first, open a browser on your computer, enter 192.168.1.1 in the website bar, press the Enter key, and the browser will pop up the router login interface.

2. Then enter your router’s login username and password; some routers’ default username and password are both ‘admin’. Then click the confirmation button to enter the router setting interface.

3. After you get to the settings interface, look at the left column, click ‘network settings’ to expand more settings, then you can see the ‘WAN port settings’ option, click the left side of WAN port settings, and it will display the current connection status.

4. On the page, you will see at the bottom, there is an ‘Advanced Settings’ button. Click it, and it will take you to the DNS settings interface.

5. If we want to set the DNS server address ourselves, just check the ‘manually set the DNS server’ option. And then in the DNS server and backup DNS server box, you can input DNS servers you like, for example, Google’s DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. While the input is completed, click to save it, and then everything is done.

Most routers’ DNS server addresses are automatically acquired by your router; you don’t need to modify them. Only in some occasions you don’t trust them or want to test them, you can fill in the router your favorite DNS information.