re: Blocking sites via Router

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How do you bypass it?

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You can set whatever device you are using to use a different DNS server, bypassing OpenDNS altogether.

What you have done is tell your router to hand out the OpenDNS server address to devices that connect to it, if they are configured to accept the settings. All it does is whenever a device asks for instagram.com, it uses opendns to translate that to an IP address and then loads the site. You have opendns denying those requests, but the device can just as easily ignore the router-provided DNS server and use a different one to get to instagram. A device can still visit any random IP address it wants.

For more strict blocking you will need something more active and I'm not sure your router will do it. You'd need parental controls or other content filtering.