Ok I assume that you are changing the DNS settings using the touchscreen which would not allow you to connect to the Internet.
You may instead make changes using Almond web interface. To access the Almond web interface and to make the changes with the dns, please do the followings:
To login to the Almond web interface, please tap the "Web Administer" on the Almond LCD Panel to access the URL and username/password to login to the web interface.
After login to the web interface, please click on "Network"
Then change primary dns to 23.21.182.24 or to whatever dns you have
And change the secondary dns to 184.169.139.227 or to whatever dns you have
And click "Apply".
I am sure now it will work for you...
Essoh:
I just tried your configuration here, and I concur with you that this should work. Although to be completely honest I don't understand why he can't simply use those DNS Servers on his main Router. (They seem to be fully functional DNS servers, even from here in Canada).
If the main router uses these as it's external DNS servers, but provides it's own internal IP address as the "only" DNS Server on the internal network, this would allow
all network clients to get answers to their DNS queries directly from the main router. (It will not matter whether the query is for a local device on the local network, or a system on the Internet --- The local Router should be able to satisfy all queries.
For Home users, this is how DNS should be setup anyway. Only the actual Router should know about external DNS servers. All other devices, including all Access Points and Range Extenders should be using the main Router as their
only DNS server.
Unlike external DNS servers, the Router should know all about local equipment on the local network, and yet can still "answer" requests for external systems, as the main router simply queries the upstream DNS servers, and then passes the information back to the device that made the original query.
The main router will even "cache" the information, so duplicate requests for the same external system will be answered by the main Router, without further upstream requests for the same information, unless the TTL (time to live) period has expired on the DNS data.
The type of configuration being discussed in this thread, is typically only required deal with GeoIP Filters forbidding access to the BBC from outside the UK. Most people seem to solve this problem using VPN's so that they "appear" to be in UK when they access the BBC. Satellite changes GeoIP filtering's effectiveness, but it doesn't change British Copyright Laws, or Content Licencing laws. (The BBC uses GeoIP filtering to ensure that their UK-only licenced content is not distributed outside the UK). American broadcaster CBS does the same thing in the USA. Canadians such as myself that live near the US-Canada border can pick up American Radio signals "over the air", but we can't access CBS Internet streaming sites over the Internet due to GeoIP filtering.