How To
API Access
API access is available to certain account types. API access gives admins the ability to self manage API tokens for access to the standard ScoutDNS Operator API. This help article is about the public operator API. For any other API access such as the ...
2FA/MFA - Two Factor Authentication
Enabling 2FA for your account can increase the security for operators accessing your data. ScoutDNS supports token based 2FA and this can be enforced for all operators with access to an account. Once enabled, any operator accessing your account will ...
Organizations - Configuration and Management of Multi-Tenant Use
ScoutDNS provides two levels of tenancy. The primary inherent level allows any operator to be a member of any number of accounts and could have different roles depending on each account setting. The second level enabled though the Organizations tab ...
Roaming Clients / Device Agents - Setup, Configure, and Manage
ScoutDNS provides device agents for organizations what wish to cover devices with DNS layer protection on and off the network. The ScoutDNS device agent is an extremely lightweight application best installed on managed devices where administrative ...
Relay - Setup and Configure
ScoutDNS supports a Relay configuration which allows operators to install a lightweight service inside their network. The relay is a local forwarding resolver service that processes queries inside the operator network while relaying public queries to ...
Configuring Notifications
ScoutDNS allows administrators to designate who can receive notifications and select what type of notifications are sent to where. This is done through the use of Notification Profiles. A notification profile contains both the email address to send ...
Install ScoutDNS Certificate for Browser HTTPS Errors
When a site or domain is blocked by ScoutDNS, a block page is served to the end user in place of the requested domain. If the requested domain was encrypted with HTTPS, then a security error will occur. In order to resolve this and receive a valid ...
Working with Whitelist and Blacklist
Often times it can be helpful to fully block or allow a domain based on desired result. The White/Black List tab allows you to build and manage custom block and allow lists and associate these lists to all policies (global) or to a specific policy in ...
Prevent DNS Work-Around for Users
Some users on your network may try to bypass ScoutDNS resolvers by changing the DNS servers in their device network settings when allowed. This can result in undesired content access on network assets along with increased security risk. The good news ...
Dynamic IP Setup
ScoutDNS supports dynamic DNS IP address integration with almost any dynamic DNS provider. Popular Dynamic DNS solutions include: No-IP ChangeIP DynDNS FreeDNS Once you have an account with any of these or similar solutions, you can configure ...
Quick Start Setup Guide - WAN Forwarding
There are three methods you can use to protect your networks and users with ScoutDNS. 1) WAN Forwarding: involves configuring ScoutDNS with your WAN IP address and then forwarding DNS queries from inside your network us our anycast resolver IPs. ...