Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Paul M
Robert Goley wrote:
 based routing.  DNS refuses to work.  This is because the pfsense machine can 

I have no answer for you, but an idea to try.

run tcpdump -l -n -i xxx udp and port 53 on the firewall for each
interface xxx in turn whilst trying to resolve and see if any packets
are seen.




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RE: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I personally use OpenDNS for everything since theyre outside of what the ISP 
handles.
only downside is that if it cannot resolve a domain for HTTP, it pulls up 
their search page instead.
 
-Sean




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 09:20:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2  I 
 will try this later to see what the result is. Scott's suggestion of using  
 a static route worked perfectly. The trouble seemed to come from using OPT1  
 and OPT2 DNS servers as the default. The pfsense machine was trying to  
 resolve with those DNS servers using the WAN interface. I added entries for  
 the LAN section of the firewall rules. This set the correct outbound  
 interface for machines on the LAN but did not seem to help the pfsense  
 machine itself. If the ISP used on the WAN interface did not has lousy DNS  
 servers, I would never have noticed this issue.   Robert  On Friday 26 
 October 2007 05:36, Paul M wrote:  Robert Goley wrote:   based routing. 
 DNS refuses to work. This is because the pfsense machine   can   I 
 have no answer for you, but an idea to try.   run tcpdump -l -n -i xxx 
 udp and port 53 on the firewall for each  interface xxx in turn whilst 
 trying to resolve and see if any packets  are seen.  
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Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Robert Goley
I will try this later to see what the result is.  Scott's suggestion of using 
a static route worked perfectly.  The trouble seemed to come from using OPT1 
and OPT2 DNS servers as the default.  The pfsense machine was trying to 
resolve with those DNS servers using the WAN interface.  I added entries for 
the LAN section of the firewall rules.  This set the correct outbound 
interface for machines on the LAN but did not seem to help the pfsense 
machine itself.  If the ISP used on the WAN interface did not has lousy DNS 
servers, I would never have noticed this issue.  

Robert

On Friday 26 October 2007 05:36, Paul M wrote:
 Robert Goley wrote:
  based routing.  DNS refuses to work.  This is because the pfsense machine
  can

 I have no answer for you, but an idea to try.

 run tcpdump -l -n -i xxx udp and port 53 on the firewall for each
 interface xxx in turn whilst trying to resolve and see if any packets
 are seen.




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Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Paul M
Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
 I personally use OpenDNS for everything since theyre outside of what the
 ISP handles.

surely it's easier to simply run your own caching resolvers? that way
you can force a cache flush if you're changing your own DNS.

the only time either your or my strategy fails is when you have an ISP
like NTL in the UK who do udp:53 hijacking (just like they force all web
traffic through their proxies, they do similar with DNS!). the only way
I found round that was to put my own resolver on a public lan at work on
a different port and hack my local bind9 config to resolve off it!  

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Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 27 Oct 2007 05:00:21 NZDT +1300, Paul M wrote:

 surely it's easier to simply run your own caching resolvers? that way
 you can force a cache flush if you're changing your own DNS.

Nope, not enough. I run pfsense in 2 places (1.0.1 and 1.2beta-some),
with caching dns enabled. Several times a day browsers just give a bogus
domain doesn't exist. With a particular banking website I have yet to
see a name resolution first time; as it's blowing up in 1s I conclude
something, somewhere, doesn't even *try* to resolve. An immediate
browser reload is always successful. This with various ISPs'
nameservers.

Volker

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Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-25 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 10/25/07, Robert Goley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
 What am I missing?

Static routes.  See the multi-wan tutorials.

Scott

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