<![CDATA[Resolve domain to internal IP address]]>I am new to pfSense, so forgive the noob question...

I purchased a domain that I want to resolve differently when inside the LAN. I would like to resolve it to pfSense's IP.

So (just an example)...
ouside world: mydomain.com -> 65.254.242.180
inside network: mydomain.com -> 192.168.1.1

I have tried adding this to domain overrides in the DNS resolve but have had no luck.

Is something even possible to do in pfSense?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143696/resolve-domain-to-internal-ip-addressRSS for NodeThu, 16 Apr 2026 04:15:55 GMTSun, 26 May 2019 16:54:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Resolve domain to internal IP address on Mon, 27 May 2019 18:10:49 GMT]]>This accomplished exactly what I was after... I didn't event think about putting in a top-level domain.

Thanks for the help!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/845211https://forum.netgate.com/post/845211Mon, 27 May 2019 18:10:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Resolve domain to internal IP address on Mon, 27 May 2019 10:56:10 GMT]]>Domain override would be when you want to ask a specific nameserver to resolve something fro you like host.domain.com or other.domain.com, you would create a domain override for domain.com pointing to some name server IP address that will resolve x.domain.com for you.

If you want mydomain.com to return 192.168.1.1

Then you would create a HOST override for domain.com where host would be domain and domain would be com

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]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/845090https://forum.netgate.com/post/845090Mon, 27 May 2019 10:56:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Resolve domain to internal IP address on Mon, 27 May 2019 03:18:57 GMT]]>@youkergav

Yes, that's how I have it set up. I use an external DNS server, with my real world addresses and configure the pfSense DNS to provide the local network address. Works fine.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/845041https://forum.netgate.com/post/845041Mon, 27 May 2019 03:18:57 GMT