Change DNS settings on Hero

[Guest Higgsy]

Does any one know if its possible to the change the DNS settings on the Hero. I am with T-Mobile UK and find their DNS servers very slow at times, and would like to use Open DNS. I have checked the APN settings and can't find a option for it. In fact the APN settings for the Hero are in a unique format.

Any Help would be great.

Edited November 18, 2009 by Higgsy

[Guest kendon]

this would be interesting. there seems to be no resolv.conf in the filesystem, if anybody finds out where the dns adresses are stored please let us know.

[Guest justbabu]

Would you be able to change DNS servers over 3g - I would have thought that all requests would HAVE to go through the carriers' servers otherwise how would they monitor data usage?

[Guest Chris Jenx]

I'm almost 100% sure it wont make a difference over 3G. You are pretty much guaranteed to use the Carriers Proxy Server.

And like every rubbish ISP there servers can't handle the load as there always reactive not proactive.

Of course all providers differ so let me know if this is possible as I would be interested.

There was an article published outlining 3G and speeds. OfCom are thinking about pushing a rule that the Providers will have to publish there average 3G speeds on there adverts. Although for this we still need a defined way to measure signal strength.

[Guest kendon]

Would you be able to change DNS servers over 3g - I would have thought that all requests would HAVE to go through the carriers' servers otherwise how would they monitor data usage?

strange thing is, using nslookup i can not resolve any address, neither wifi nor 3g, though the opendns server is reachable:

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ alias as='adb shell'

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as nslookup haribo.de

Server:    0.0.0.0

Address 1: 0.0.0.0


nslookup: can't resolve 'haribo.de': Name or service not known

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as nslookup haribo.de 208.67.222.222

Server:    208.67.222.222

Address 1: 208.67.222.222


nslookup: can't resolve 'haribo.de': Name or service not known

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as ping 208.67.222.222

PING 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=2612 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=1613 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=616 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=108 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=108 ms

^C

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ [/codebox]

so i am afraid you might be right... :) hope not though

[Guest Chris Jenx]

strange thing is, using nslookup i can not resolve any address, neither wifi nor 3g, though the opendns server is reachable:

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ alias as='adb shell'

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as nslookup haribo.de

Server:    0.0.0.0

Address 1: 0.0.0.0


nslookup: can't resolve 'haribo.de': Name or service not known

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as nslookup haribo.de 208.67.222.222

Server:    208.67.222.222

Address 1: 208.67.222.222


nslookup: can't resolve 'haribo.de': Name or service not known

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ as ping 208.67.222.222

PING 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=2612 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=1613 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=616 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=108 ms

64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=108 ms

^C

hanno@bnhpap0j:~$ [/codebox]

so i am afraid you might be right... :) hope not though

Yeh that's what I thought, it will rely on the proxy sever to do the lookup. It might be possible down a routed VPN tunnel or Wifi etc.

[Guest Higgsy]

I was just testing generally last night and found that when loading pages for Modaco mobile site as an example, load times were between 3 and 30 secs with no real pattern. I was testing between 7pm and 2am. The issue seems to be the DNS server taking its time to resolve the website once it finds it the page then loads quickly. I also connected between 3g and GPRS and found alot of the time GPRS was quicker at getting to the actual point where the age starts loading. If i connect through my home wifi, it is literally a split second before it starts loading.

[Guest Loxley]

strange thing is, using nslookup i can not resolve any address, neither wifi nor 3g, though the opendns server is reachable:

Known problem: http://android.modaco.com/index.php?amp;sh...t&p=1099546

Busybox needs to be linked again androids own libc to correct this.

To get/set dns servers you might try to

getprop | grep dns

and then setprop …

Good luck

Niki

Edited November 19, 2009 by Loxley

[Guest kendon]

Known problem: http://android.modaco.com/index.php?amp;sh...t&p=1099546

Busybox needs to be linked again androids own libc to correct this.

could you please check that link? just throws me to modaco startpage...

Edited November 19, 2009 by kendon

[Guest Loxley]

could you please check that link? just throws me to modaco startpage...

It works now.

[Guest kendon]

It works now.

ok thx. i successfully compiled busybox, but i have no clue about libraries and how they are linked... if you are still up to this maybe we can work something out?