There is another way of generating aliases that may be helpful in certain circumstances. Sometimes we want to create an alias for a website; however, that website may use multiple IP addresses (for example, Amazon uses six different IP addresses as of this writing). Rather than find out what these IP addresses are an input them manually, we can do this much more easily in pfSense.
To create an alias for a website, navigate to Diagnostics | DNS Lookup. On the DNS Lookup page, enter the hostname in the Hostname field and click on the Lookup button. When the results of the lookup are returned, there should be a button next to the Lookup button (before the Results section) labeled Add Alias. Click on the button, ...
