In the system, the end user client is configured to direct a DNS request, the DNS request being a request to resolve a hostname, directly onto the public Internet to a DNS service platform operated by a service provider on behalf of the enterprise, the DNS service platform comprising a plurality of platform DNS servers distributed around the Internet. One unique feature of this solution is that the end users in the company branch offices always utilize the nearest DNS Everywhere resolvers to do lookups on their behalf, thus ensuring any service that does geolocation maps their requests to nearby machines. Further, the enterprise DNS server is configured to receive the end user client-s DNS requests, which is for internal hostname, and generate a DNS answer, which is returned to the end user client via the secure tunnel.
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