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title: "Aliases"
description: "Set a friendly alias hostname that resolves to a host"
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Aliases provide a secondary, user-friendly address for any of your Resources, allowing users to access the Resource using this alternate name in addition to the original address.
For instance, a router with the address `10.0.0.1` could be assigned the alias `router.internal`, and users could connect using either. Aliases are accessible to anyone who has access to the Resource, and they are exclusively accessible when connected with a Pangolin client, meaning they function without requiring any external DNS record setup. Furthermore, aliases are protocol agnostic, which means they will work with any network protocol, essentially acting as a pseudo-A record for an address that is only functional within the Pangolin environment.
# Disable Aliases
Aliases work

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title: "Hosts"
description: "Provide access to a specific host on the network"
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### What about overlaps?
Pangolin smooths away overlapping networks and arbitrarily chooses a single site to resolve the IP address or range to. This is because we want connection requests to any Resource to be as simple as possible for the end users: when they connect to a particular IP address or FQDN, Pangolin figures out which site to send it to and the end user never needs to figure this out.
It is recommended that you create overlapping resources only if absolutely required. If you do, use [Aliases](/manage/resources/private/alias) to explicitly defined which host should be used for a given FQDN or IP address and use the alias to connect.