I am not able to find any Option to change the DNS from the ISP's to a different one, neither ipv6 nor ipv4. There is no option to use private dns feature of Android Pie either.
I was wondering that too not until I found out that they've blocked that feature on this devices also Xiaomi is not offering the same..But nevertheless you can do it by another method.
Step1:Go to setting/wifi setting
Step2:Change ip dynamic to static
Step3:There would be two fields of dns
Enter ????? on first &
????? on the second
You are good to go you can check on dnsleaks if it works or not
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I just got my View last week and it updated to Honeycomb the very next day. Today is the first day bringing it to work. Our corporate network does not have DHCP enabled. I am able to see my corp network wifi and put in the password, but it never obtains an IP address. There is no 'menu' button to go to advanced settings like in normal android (2.2 or 2.3). On my phone I go to advanced settings and enter the IP information manually and it works fine. Where is that menu on this tablet? Did HTC 'F' up and leave it out?
Thanks!
Go to WIFI settings, tap on the network. Then change "IP Settings" from HDCP to "Passive" (strange that this is called "Passive" but anyway). Then you get a new menu to change the IP address, gateway, DNS, etc.
Hi,
I am currently trying to find a way to change the DNS settings on my S II. I want to implement the posibillity to set the DNS IP in the settings of my cyanogenmod ROM.
But it seems like its impossible to set a custom DNS for mobile networks on the SII.
I found out that Android stores its DNS settings as properties.
- net.dnsX for the current active DNS
- and also dhcp.wlan0.dnsX when connected to WiFi,
- or net.rmnet0.dnsX when connected to a mobile network.
I was able to change this settings manually with the "setprop" utility and also automatically by modifying "20-dns.conf" from dhcpcd for WiFi and "ConnectivityService.java" for mobile networks.
For WiFi this works without any problems, but for mobile networks these settings seem to be ignored completely. Android still uses the DNS settings from my provider. I was searching through the complete android source to find an indication where the dns settings are stored that are actually used, but I have found nothing.
First I thought my provider is routing all requests to port 53 to their own servers but even if I set the DNS address to 127.0.0.1, all requests are still resolved.
Has anyone tried this before or even sucsessfully changed the DNS settings for mobile networks on the S2?
I belive the DNS settings for mobile networks are handled in some binary blobs (from Samsung?), maybe libsec-ril.so.
Does anyone have what I can do?
While searching through the net I found out that this is working for other devices, so I dont really understand why samsung would ignore the properties in their code.
Siloportem
I will make this quick, and I hope to see some insight into that question:
We all known how sensitive the DNS Service is. With most of our carriers/ISP proving the service, is not a surprise that lots of people are pressuring vendors to include more privacy-focused DNS services. And that is justified, with that information a company is able to infer lots about you, what banks you have an account, what is your e-mail provider, what porn sites you like to visit and etc, basically is possible to know pretty much everything you do online. Another aspect is that, if your Carrier/ISP got pwned, you are in bad sheets, as the hacker may redirect legit traffic to a custom server, waiting to -eager- to receive your connection and fool you.
Our best bet is to be able to change, and possible setup our own DNS service if paranoid.
Now, we have on Android an option to ask the system to use a encrypted connection to reach a DNS server on the Internet. This feature is called "Private DNS". That would be a solution, if Google were actually *enforcing* the config. Even if I use an VPN, the Carrier is able to ask the system to add a *custom route* that will redirect the traffic going to the Carrier DNS server *out* of the VPN. And if you use a VPN connection and your carrier do not enforce a route to their DNS, you will not be able to use Google's Private DNS as it doesn't work while a VPN is connected.
If you ask me, this is pretty much BS. There is zero need to have a VPN to push a DNS server, but what really shook me is that Google pushed the Private DNS, over TLS and over HTTPS but that setting is not global in the system. What the actual ****?!
The fact that I may need to root the device in order to control the DNS configuration is so bad.. I can't even express how I fell about that.
Any thoughts about the matter? Have you managed to control the DNS config without root and wifi tricks?
felco
Hi.
I have Wifi disconnections frequently on my phone (Xiaomi Redmi 5) and my researches lend me to focus on IPv6.
When my phone is connected to my home Wifi, I can see in the connections parameters that there are 2 local IP addresses : one IPv4 and another IPv6.
I disabled in my router settings the IPv6 management but my phone still has an IPv6 address.
What do I need to do (On the router or on the phone) to get rid of it?
Thanks!
Dude, i was just coasting down the information highway, not actually looking for this, but found it nonetheless, and coincidentally i go thru the same rather annoying events. Did you ever solve it? Care to share?
Yep, it appears to me that while using a VPN disconnections didn't occur anymore.
I don't understand why but if works.
I use this workaround since.
I'll give that a try! Thanks
I don't think it's a problem with ipv4 or ipv6. precisely if you don't establish an IP address it can't be connected to WiFi. maybe you can try resetting the Router you are using. CMIIW
@Double Jo
A Local IP address ( to be corect: Private IP address ) is an IP address that's reserved for internal use behind a router or other Network Address Translation (NAT) device, apart from the public. Private IP addresses are in contrast to public IP addresses, which are public and can't be used within a home or business network
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) reserves the following IP address blocks for use as private IP addresses:
10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255
As one can see those all are IPv4 addresses.
I am on miui 11. How to set private dns? I cannot get that option normally. When I used Activity Launcher app and used network dashboard settings, it crashes. Please help. I need to set dns to adguard.