Operating Instructions and Installation Instructions

DNS Server: Freely Selectable
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• The “FRITZ!VPN” VPN Client
AVM offers the “FRITZ!VPN” software as a VPN client.
Both the Wizard and the client can be downloaded free of
charge from the VPN Service Portal on the AVM web site:
avm.de/en/vpn
11.7 DNS Server: Freely Selectable
DNS servers are preset in the FRITZ!Box for IPv4 and IPv6.
These are the DNS servers assigned by the Internet provider.
For both IPv4 and IPv6, the preset DNS server can be replaced
by a free DNS server. Free DNS servers include, for instance,
OpenDNS and Google DNS.
Here is how to change the DNS server entry:
1. Open the FRITZ!Box user interface.
2. Enable the advanced view.
3. In the “Internet / Type of Connection” menu, select the
“DNS Server” page.
4. Change the settings for the DNS servers.
11.8 DNSSEC: Security for DNS Queries
DNSSEC is short for Domain Name System Security Exten-
sions. As the name says, this is an extension of DNS, the do-
main name system.
DNSSEC ensures that both the DNS server and the informa-
tion returned by the DNS server are authentic, or genuine.
Security with DNSSEC
When a home user surfs the web, he sends queries to the In-
ternet by entering URLs in the address line of the browser. A
URL is the name of a web site that is easy to remember, such
The “DNSv6” page is displayed only if you enabled IPv6
support for the FRITZ!Box on the “IPv6” page.