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[Terry <terencenathan AT gmail.com>]

Hi Everybody,

I've been thinking about what it is going to take to make this project the success we all hope it to be and one of the things I've realized is the importance of participation from the general public using OpenNIC for their dns servers.

The guide that I found on the opennicproject.org site was ok for me, but I don't think the guides are good enough if we want high adoption rates. What we need is a mini program or batch file, etc, to make the changes for them, and maybe even be able to revert the changes back if they experience problems.

I'm not a windows programmer and I could use some help/suggestions on how to best accomplish this. I've figured out a very simple case of changing the dns servers for the wireless interface using netsh, so I think that could be worked into a batch file, but I don't know how to programmaticly get the default value of the dns server to be able to set it as the secondary, with OpenNIC being the primary.

This is what I have so far in case anybody is interested:

set dnsservers name="Wireless Network Connection" static <closest-opennic-dnsserver-ip>

add dns "Wireless Network Connection" <default-windows-static-dnsserver>

Any and all comments and feedback is welcome!