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    • CommentAuthorhulkbd
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2009
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    I'm new in this forum and just start using opendns for my network with Mikrotik Router OS. Going good but I have found a problem which is after one day or long logon or out my opendns status setting disable, like most of the time my status setting disabled and have to enable it every time. why is it happening? or am I making any mistake! please let me know if someone else having this problem.

    Thanks

    H Zahid
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    Sorry, your English is hard to understand. Can you please be more specific as to what you mean by your status? What is it that is disabled? Something on your computer? On your router? Or does your filtering not work? Or do you get logged off from here?
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    Are you using the Opendns updater or something to keep your ip updated with Opendns?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2009
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    Just to mention, here is another about MikroTik:
    http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=4212
    • CommentAuthorbarbny814
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
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    I understand. I have IOBIT which automatically disables what it considers services not necessary on startup and can be disabled. So, everytime it runs a configuration check, it stops some services to give me the cleanest, minimal startup configuration. It happens slso with simple things like "help files." It diables them, as they are rarely used, so there's no reason to have them be automatic. On the rare occasion I need "help" I have to go back to services.msc and change the diabled instruction and have it open or run for use. I suspect you have some kind of system optimizer.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
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    "I have IOBIT which automatically disables what it considers services not necessary"
    Thanks for giving out this warning about this product. I will then never use it, as I want to decide myself what I want or not.

    But, to be honest, I do not understand the relationship with the original topic. What does a Windows service disabler have to do with a Mikrotik Router OS and its DNS settings?
    • CommentAuthorbarbny814
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
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    By the way, sorry to take up another space, but the computer will run without open DNS, so I think whatever optimizer you have (which can be a part of a spyware, privacy sweep, defrag, unused files cleaner program) is diabling DNS every time you start up. I'd guess you shut down each night, so that when you re-boot the setting for DNS is set back to disabled each and every time. Run services.msc and see if DNS is set to diabled. If you are aware of the system optimizer feature in whatever other software you have to optimze the system, you might have to diabled that as it may offer no way to distinguish those you want to set up. Mine decides for me what I don't want.
    • CommentAuthorbarbny814
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
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    Rotblitz: I'm not sure, however an optimizer program will disable what it thinks will give you a minimal/bare bones start up. I suspect is has nothing to do with the router, but an optimizer program that stops programs.features not necessary to run a computer. Afterall, you don't need to have OPENDNS enabled for the computer to work an still access the 'net. I'm sure you know that an optimizer that runs each day, decides what can be eliminated on start up since you have the option to start a service on your own. It's not the routher, IMO, but that the OP is unaware that she has an optimizer program that is doing this to OPENDNS and other files and programs, such as my description of "help" being diabled every time I reboot. It's just not a necessary feature so the optimizer disables it until you discover why it's not working, such as trying to access help. I just had to set DNS to automatic -- it was disabled.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
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    "whatever optimizer you have ... is diabling DNS every time you start up."
    Nothing has ever changed my TCP/IP (inc. DNS) settings. I have just really a few proven "optimizers", but these do not disable any services or change any settings.
    However, I know about some connection "assistants" almost provided by ISPs that these change any TCP/IP settings according to what they have been programmed to do. I can only discourage from using such "helpers".

    Also, services.msc is far nothing to do with DNS server settings, in no way. Therefore you cannot "set DNS to automatic". If you mean the DNS client - run it or not, it has no influence on DNS settings at all. Btw, I generally do not run this service, it's just a resource consumer.

    But now back to the topic...

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