Host Overrides and Domain Overrides

The next two sections are Host Overrides and Domain Overrides. Host Overrides allows you to configure a specific hostname to resolve differently than it otherwise would with the DNS servers being used by the DNS forwarder. This can be used for split DNS configurations; it also provides one possible way of blocking access to certain sites (although the user could always defeat this measure by simply entering the correct IP address of the target domain).

Domain Overrides is similar, except that it allows you to specify a different DNS server to use when resolving a specific domain. This can be useful in certain scenarios; for example, if you have a Windows Active Directory configuration and DNS queries for ...

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