From 14d97d97b97f8e2cfcb72d9a10fc6e67afb03f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Owen Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:46:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Working --- manage/resources/private/alias.mdx | 8 ++++++++ manage/resources/private/host.mdx | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/manage/resources/private/alias.mdx b/manage/resources/private/alias.mdx index 5b161d0..8249ce9 100644 --- a/manage/resources/private/alias.mdx +++ b/manage/resources/private/alias.mdx @@ -2,3 +2,11 @@ title: "Aliases" description: "Set a friendly alias hostname that resolves to a host" --- + +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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/manage/resources/private/host.mdx b/manage/resources/private/host.mdx index f7c86af..dccb638 100644 --- a/manage/resources/private/host.mdx +++ b/manage/resources/private/host.mdx @@ -2,3 +2,14 @@ title: "Hosts" description: "Provide access to a specific host on the network" --- + + + + + + +### 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. \ No newline at end of file