Wi-Fi router

Setting Bancuh DNS on your router is the simplest way to cover everything at home: phones, laptops, smart TVs, consoles and guests’ devices. You change one setting and nothing needs to be done on each device.

How home DNS works

Your router gets an internet connection from your provider, along with a set of DNS servers to use. This is the WAN DNS, usually your provider’s own servers or Google’s.

Each device that joins your Wi-Fi is given an address by the router, and told to use the router itself for DNS. When a device looks up a name:

1. The device asks the router.
2. The router answers from its cache if it can.
3. Otherwise the router asks its WAN DNS servers, caches the answer and passes it back.

So changing the router’s WAN DNS to Bancuh DNS makes every device on the network use it, without touching the devices.

Set it up

You’ll need these addresses:

Dallas

Server	IPv4	IPv6
us-dns1	45.33.24.129	2600:3c00::f03c:94ff:fe97:f94f

Paris

Server	IPv4	IPv6
fr-dns1	51.158.99.7	2001:bc8:710:1efa:dc00:ff:fe34:a339
fr-dns2	163.172.180.231	2001:bc8:710:1efb:dc00:ff:fe34:a1d7

Singapore

Server	IPv4	IPv6
sg-dns1	139.59.219.245	2400:6180:0:d0::f7:1001
sg-dns2	139.59.218.207	2400:6180:0:d0::f5:7001

Tokyo

Server	IPv4	IPv6
jp-dns1	103.29.68.118	2400:8902::f03c:92ff:fe3e:46cd
jp-dns2	172.105.195.19	2400:8902::f03c:94ff:fee9:70

1. Open your router’s admin page in a browser. It is usually at http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1, and the address and password are often printed on a sticker on the router.

   

2. Find the WAN or Internet settings, and look for the DNS options. You may need to switch DNS from automatic to manual.

   

3. Enter the two IPv4 addresses for your location as the primary and secondary DNS servers, and save.

4. If your connection has IPv6, find the IPv6 WAN settings, which are often on a separate page, and enter the two IPv6 addresses there.

   

5. Check the LAN or DHCP server settings. The DNS server handed to devices should be the router’s own address, or left on automatic. If it lists other DNS servers such as 8.8.8.8, devices will skip the router and bypass Bancuh DNS.

6. Reconnect your devices to Wi-Fi, or restart them, so they drop any cached lookups. Then check that it works.

Don't forget IPv6

If your provider supports IPv6 but you only change the IPv4 DNS, devices can still get IPv6 DNS servers from your provider and use those instead. Ads will then appear some of the time. Either set the IPv6 DNS servers too, or check your router’s IPv6 LAN settings for a DNS option.

If your router doesn’t let you change DNS

Some routers supplied by internet providers lock the DNS settings. You have a few options:

• Look for DNS under the LAN / DHCP settings instead. Handing Bancuh DNS addresses straight to devices works just as well.
• Set up each device individually using the other setup guides.
• Put your own router behind the provider’s, and set DNS on yours.