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Nodes that query records outside the `consul.` domain resolve to an upstream DNS. You can specify IP addresses or use `go-sockaddr` templates. Consul resolves IP addresses in the specified order and ignores duplicates.
> [!WARNING]
> We recommend configuring your DNS resolvers to point the `consul.` domain towards your Consul DNS server(s). Misconfigurations can result in queries for the `consul.` domain being routed outside of your network instead, leaking DNS queries to root DNS servers.
### Enable non-Consul queries
You enable non-Consul queries to be resolved by setting Consul as the DNS server for a node and providing a [`recursors`](/consul/docs/agent/config/config-files#recursors) configuration.