first check if auth is working under Diagnostics - Authentication in pfSense GUI?
under SystemUser ManagerSettings did you select the LDAP server?
under LDAP server config, a good sign is when you click on Authentication containers linen "Select a container" you should get the OU from server ( if AD )
You don't know that internet connection's IP address in advance to put in your accesslist.
How do you plan on managing or troubleshooting your machine then?
I use a cloud VM as SSH jump host with port forwarding.
@madfuzker Understood. I disabled it too as it seems the log content isn't very useful unless there's a problem.
As for the license changes; well, that's a topic for another thread :). I passed on opn for other reasons.
@VioletDragon So what if it's an old thread. The concern was never adequately addressed. A welcomed solution would be to have a loglevel option in the gui. Want everything, no problem, want errors only, we can do that too.
Problem solved! Mea culpa as you might have suspected.
Earlier this am I determined that host file contained the .212 address and that it was unremovable because the hosts file was regenerated on reboot. That and your last post led me to the DNS resolver and I found that I had put in an override for acb.netgate.com, apparently some time ago when I was having some upgrade issues. Removed the override and all is now well with autoconfig backup.