How to change DNS Server on Android

What is DNS?

We guess, that you have a general understanding of how websurfing works. You know, type bluevps.net and here you are on our website buying servers o rreading this article. In reality it is a little bit more complicated. If you know what lies behind it you’ll get a more understanding on you can protect your security and privacy. If we look under the hood we will see that generally internet requests don’t understand domains like bluevps.net, but they do understand various IP addresses like 172.67.220.177 or IPv6 like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. 

What Do DNS Servers Do?

We know that computers are typically speaking numbers, but since people are not and they prefer letters, here where the Domain Name System comes in play where it translates familiar names like bestwebsiteintheworld.com to numeric IP address.

Usually when being supplied by your domesict internet service provider, your network relies on DNS server provided by ISP. So when you send the query with domain name it makes a complex interaction with server to return the needed IP address. 

What's the Best DNS Server?

The most popular choice is wirhout a doubt a Google Public DNS. It has been available for almost 10 years, with the easy-to-remember IP addresses of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

The second most popular is OpenDNS. It is even older than Google being founded in 2005. It doesn’t provide an easy-to-remember addresses like Google or CloudFlare, but offers additional features like, FamilyShield servers, which filters inappropriate content, like adult content.

How to change it on Android?

Procced to Settings and click on Wi-fi & Network

Choose your Wi-Fi and go to advanced options and IP settings. Change it from DHCP to Static and find DNS1 and DNS2.

For google it is 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

For OpenDNS it is 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Conclusion

Now you know how to change DNS server on Android! You can share this article with your friends if they are experiencing any problems.