You can actually do both… In Unbound or dnsmasq, create a Domain override. Also use pfBlockerNG to download the most recent IPs automatically daily/weekly as required. Hurricane Electric is a great source to collect IPs for almost any site.

You must be on nano version judging by that, or else have /var/ enabled as a RAM disk. You can't run MySQL on nano or where /var is a RAM disk. Running MySQL on the firewall at all is probably a bad idea too, better to keep server roles on servers.

I don't think so. A roundabout way might be to set an alias to an FQDN and set the FQDN to a hostname dynamically updated by dyndns on WAN.  That probably won't reflect changes fast enough. Are you configuring Services > Load Balancer > Virtual Servers?  I can't think of an effective way to use a dynamic address there.  Depends on how quickly you need it to update. I looked in /tmp/rules.debug and everywhere that references WAN address has been replaced by the actual IP address, not an alias to it.

you could search for xenserver here - you will find lots of info about issues with xenserver example https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=85797.0 Like first hit searching xenserver pfsense on google.

What I've done on my network is configure DHCP to supply the pfSense system as the primary DNS (and my local servers as secondary and tertiary in case pfSense system is down).  Then on pfSense I set DNS Resolver (Unbound) to forward DNS requests for my local domain to my DNS servers.  Its not exactly what you asked but I think it accomplishes the same goals.  Plus it allows pfSense to act as a cache and it knows the upstream (ISP) DNS servers.

@jatgm1: im tired of hearing pathetic morons talk about a childerens game. Then stop hanging around with pathetic morons. If that is not a possibility then get some ear plugs. @jatgm1: if you want to play it whatever, but its installed on the computer and we have the xbox game theres no reason he should need to watch god damn videos that some sad saps made. Who is "we"? Who is "he"?

Since this thread is still the top result on searching for double wan bandwidth, I'm posting another pic from my 2.2.2 64bit system. It appears that this problem has been re-identified… but just for posterity and clarity, see the attached pic.  

This is all moot anyway.  No matter what you do with DNS if the client web browser is asking for an https connection and the captive portal gets in the middle, a certificate error must be displayed. We, as IP networking professionals, should never, ever, EVER implement anything that, by design, will present certificate errors to users.  Connections to https sites before captive portal is negotiated should simply hang.  Don't like it?  Don't use a captive portal.

Have you done an iperf to, from, and through PFSense? You want to make sure it works as expected in an ideal case before trying to hunt down issues in unideal cases. In all issues in life, when debugging problems, eliminate as many variables as possible.

Oh, thanks for clarifying everyone.  Appreciate the feedback.

I have modified Steve's solution as follows and it works on [2.2.2-RELEASE]: /etc/rc.linkup interface=opt1 action=start Matt

If you are using pfSense 2.2.2 the log format is very different from what is was when that blog was posted. Have you installed version 2.0.2 of the the TA-pfsense Splunk add-on?

I don't know if it makes a difference either way but personally I would get a standby unit fully working with everything you need in the way of packages, and then rely on config.xml to update it to current rules, aliases, URLs etc.