Kerio Tech KERIO WINROUTE FIREWALL 6, Administrator'S Manual

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8.1 DNS module
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queries concerning names and reversed queries are independent from each other. For better
reference, it is recommended to start with all rules concerning queries for names and continue
with all rules for reversed queries, or vice versa.
Click on the Add or the Edit button to open a dialog where custom DNS forwarding rules can
be defined.
Figure 8.4 DNS forwarding — a new rule
• The Name DNS query option allows specification of a rule for name queries. Use the If
the queried name matches entry to specify a corresponding DNS name (name of a host
in the domain).
It is usually desirable to forward queries to entire domains rather than to specific
names. Specification of a domain name may therefore contain
*
wildcard symbol
(asterisk — substitutes any number of characters) and/or ? (question mark — substi-
tutes a single character). The rule will be applied to all names matching with the string
(hosts, domains, etc.).
Example:
DNS name will be represented by the string ?erio.c* . The rule will be applied to all
names in domains kerio.com , cerio.com , aerio.c etc., such as on www.kerio.com ,
secure.kerio.com , www.aerio.c , etc.