How to Change the DNS Server on a Chromebook

Chromebooks permit you to set a custom DNS server, yet Google doesn't make the alternative simple to discover. There are numerous motivations to change your DNS server, all things considered. 

The speediest approach to do this may be to just change the DNS server on your switch. This change will then take impact on every gadget on your home system, yet just while they're on your home system.

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Change a Wi-Fi Network’s DNS Server

This gimmick was beforehand exploratory. It obliged you to sort chrome://banners into your location bar, spot the "Exploratory static IP arrangement" alternative, empower it, and afterward restart your Chromebook. Thankfully, this is presently a stable gimmick that no more obliges such tweaking. 

To get to this alternative, click the menu symbol in Chrome and afterward click Settings. On the Settings page, click the name of your current Wi-Fi Internet association. In the rundown that shows up, click the name once more.

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Click the Network tab. As a matter of course, "Programmed name servers" is chosen here. This alternative picks the DNS servers gave by your DHCP server — as it were, the default DNS servers on your Wi-Fi switch. 

Pick the "Google name servers" alternative to utilize Google's DNS servers on your Chromebook or select "Custom name servers" and enter your own

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Naturally, the programmed DNS server locations are entered in the containers when you choose Custom name servers. You'll need to erase them and enter your own favored DNS server addresses into the initial two crates. On the off chance that you simply add them to the third and fourth boxes, the initial two DNS servers will be utilized as a part of inclination to your custom ones. 

Case in point, in the event that you need to utilize OpenDNS's NDS servers, you'd have to enter 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 into the initial two cases here. You can enter up to four DNS servers, yet you by and large just need two. You could even get by with one, yet most DNS administrations give two separate DNS server addresses — simply so there's a fallback alternative if one comes up short or doesn't have the information you're searching for

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Repeat This For Every Wi-Fi Network You Use

Note that you're changing a choice particular to a Wi-Fi system itself. This mean you'll really need to go into the Settings screen and physically set your DNS server for each new Wi-Fi system you utilize. After you set the choice once, your Chromebook will recall that it. Along these lines, once you set it on the Wi-Fi systems you ordinarily utilize, you're ready. In any case, in case you're utilizing another Wi-Fi system and need to utilize your favored Wi-Fi system with it, you'll have to take a fast trek to the Settings screen and adjust its system settings. 

Chromebooks are like Android and iOS gadgets here. They all don't give an alternative to set favored DNS servers for your Wi-FI interface by and large. They just offer choices that apply to the individual Wi-Fi systems you join with.

Just Change The DNS Server on Your Router

To spare time, you may need to change the DNS server on your switch. Take after the directions in our manual for changing the DNS server on all your gadgets and change it on your home switch. At whatever point a gadget is associated with your home system with DHCP — the default settings, unless you transform them physically — it will utilize the DNS server you set on your switch. 

Nonetheless, when you leave your home system, your Chromebook will utilize the DNS server defined on the Wi-Fi system you associate with. Physically setting your favored DNS server on your Chromebook will permit you to keep utilizing that DNS administration when you go out and get online in cafés, inns, and airplane terminals — or anyplace else. Anyway, in the event that you simply utilize your Chromebook at home, changing the DNS server on your switch is all you'll have to do! 

Lamentably, some Internet administration suppliers don't permit you to change the DNS server on the joined switch/modem gadgets they give their clients. They do this to hold help expenses down, as an off base DNS server location could keep a custom from perusing the web. 

You may need to perform a Google look for your kind of modem and "change DNS server" to check whether there's a choice covered up there. (I once figured out how to discover a shrouded organization page that permitted me to change this choice on an ISP-if switch, despite the fact that my ISP didn't need me to. Your mileage may flux

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This may not be the most advantageous approach to change your DNS server, however it isn't so much that terrible. You can even now harvest the profits of a custom DNS server, regardless of the fact that you can't arrange the DNS server on the Wi-Fi switch you're associated with.

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