Thank you Derek! I will sniff a bit more...
But can you give me a hint from where pfdns takes his information about what is going on on the network? Is it listening to a socket, getting data from some other PF deamons? Cheers, Till On 04/22/2016 04:05 PM, Derek Wuelfrath wrote: > Till, > > I’ll keep it simple! > > pfdns is mainly resolving any request coming to it to the PacketFence portal > URL (hostname + domain part configured in pf.conf) > When a request coming from a known registration / isolation network, pfdns > will simply returns the PacketFence URL. > > Some more advanced feature are also involving “punching holes” in the > iptables firewall along with full DNS resolution when it comes to Oauth2 or > passthrough per example. > > I think the easiest way to figure out the behavior you are getting would be > to run tcpdump on the server and see what is going between it and the client. > > Cheers! > -dw. > > — > Derek Wuelfrath > dwuelfr...@inverse.ca :: +1.514.447.4918 (x110) :: +1.866.353.6153 (x110) > Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence > (www.packetfence.org) > >> On Apr 22, 2016, at 09:57, g4-l...@tonarchiv.ch wrote: >> >> Hello Derek, >> >> Thanks for your reply! >> >> At the moment pfdns is kind of a black box for me... I do not know from >> where it takes its configuration. >> >> This is about an in-line configuration, and I am trying to use an >> external captive portal with apache_proxy directives. At the moment I >> get a "too many redirects" error message in my browser. >> >> It would help me a lot to understand the whole PF mechanisms when I >> could see what exactly pfDNS is doing. What names it resolves to which >> IPs, and where this data comes from... >> >> Cheers, >> Till >> >> On 04/22/2016 03:39 PM, Derek Wuelfrath wrote: >>> Hello Till, >>> >>> Not really sure what you are asking for. >>> Can you be a bit more specific ? >>> >>> Cheers! >>> -dw. >>> >>> — >>> Derek Wuelfrath >>> dwuelfr...@inverse.ca :: +1.514.447.4918 (x110) :: +1.866.353.6153 (x110) >>> Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence >>> (www.packetfence.org) >>> >>>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 05:21, g4-l...@tonarchiv.ch wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> Somebody can tell me where I find the configuration of pfdns? Or better: >>>> How to find out his current name to IP database? I needed this for >>>> debugging reasons. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Till >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications >>>> Manager >>>> Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple >>>> tiers of >>>> your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and >>>> reduces your MTTR. 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