@GRL So with the public DNS set in both wan and lan, IF I change a dns on my network card to googles, 8.8.8.8 it'll bypass the DNS i've set on the LAN/WAN, this was more what I was wondering about...

@btx so setting the lan interface does set the DNS server.. BUT if you set it locally on any machine to googles it'll just bypass it, the solution I found for that was involving permitting and...

I'm pretty much brand new to anything to do with networking but purchased this router in order to be able to force a DNS server... I need a hand in figuring out how to setup port forwarding rules...