Assistance with sending a single LAN client to a different DNS server
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Hi All,
I'm using OpenDNS to prevent access to things like games / social media on my network. I've got my system DNS set to OpenDNS servers so any DNS queries to the pfSense get queried against OpenDNS.
However there are legitimate reasons (e.g. social marketing) to access these sites. I've been asked to give access to a single workstation but since blocking is accomplished on the DNS level (i.e. site-wide) I'm not sure how I can accomplish this.
The easiest way I can think of is to send this specific client's DNS requests straight to the ISPs servers rather than querying the pfSense (which will result it returning a blocked page because of OpenDNS).
Is there a better way to accomplish this?
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After consulting with a colleage, I realised the "Static DHCP Lease" feature allows me to do just this – specify a custom DNS server on a per-host basis. So I've got it working as desired now.
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This helped saved me a bit of time.
Thanks for following up your own post and publishing the solution.
Graham