Although the DNS resolver is the default DNS service in pfSense 2.2 and later, you can use DNS forwarder instead.
- To do so, navigate to Services | DNS Forwarder and click on the Enable DNS forwarder checkbox (make sure to disable DNS resolver first). Many of the settings for DNS forwarder are identical to the DNS resolver settings. In this section, we will focus on the settings which are unique to DNS forwarder.
- As with the DNS resolver, you can register DHCP leases and static mappings, but there is also an option called resolve DHCP mappings first.
- Invoking this option causes the DHCP mappings to be resolved before the names provided in the Host Overrides and Domain Overrides tables.
- The DNS Query Forwarding section has several ...
