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      Seamus @viragomann
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      @viragomann
      Hi viragomann,
      Thanks for your help. The PC gets an IP from pfSense by DHCP and I've just confirmed that it's pointing at pfSense for DNS using "ipconfig". I temporarily changed the PC IP and DNS to static addresses to see if that made any difference, but it didn't. I have not changed any DNS Resolver settings on pfSense from the default. A pfSense "DNS lookup" reports "host could not be resolved" when I test the ISP router internal IP. As I mentioned, pinging this IP reports no loss of packets.

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        viragomann @Seamus
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        @seamus said in New ISP issues:

        A pfSense "DNS lookup" reports "host could not be resolved"

        Which host name?
        Try a lookup for dns.google or something common on pfSense.

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          Seamus @viragomann
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          @viragomann
          Sorry, my last reply was mistaken. Thanks again for your time.

          pfSense LAN segment is 192.169.1.0/24. WAN is 10.3.3.0/24.

          On the PC (192.168.1.100) "nslookup" successfully shows 192.168.1.1 (pfSense LAN IP and DNS).
          On pfSense, DNS Lookup can't resolve 10.3.3.3, the ISP router internal IP.
          A pfSense DNS Lookup of dns.google.com gives
          Results:
          8.8.8.8 A
          8.8.4.4 A
          Timings:
          127.0.0.1 31ms
          10.3.3.3 5ms
          8.8.8.8 0ms

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            Seamus @Seamus
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            @seamus said in New ISP issues:

            pfSense LAN segment is 192.169.1.0/24. WAN is 10.3.3.0/24.

            TYPO!
            192.168.1.0/24

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              Seamus @viragomann
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              @viragomann
              Host 10.3.3.3

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                Seamus @viragomann
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                @viragomann said in New ISP issues:

                Which host name?

                pfSense.home.arpa

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Seamus
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                  @seamus said in New ISP issues:

                  On pfSense, DNS Lookup can't resolve 10.3.3.3

                  Um... what are you expecting that to 'resolve' to? It's a private IP address. Or do you mean resolve from?

                  Looks like it is responding in the lookup results for dns.google.com.

                  What error does the client report if you try to ping google.com?

                  Steve

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                    Seamus @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 said in New ISP issues:

                    What error does the client report if you try to ping google.com?

                    From the PC (connected to pfSense LAN) I can ping only the pfSense LAN IP. No packets are returned when pinging google.com, 8.8.4.4 or the ISP router (10.3.3.3).

                    From the pfSense diagnostic menu, I can successfully ping google.com, 8.8.4.4, the ISP router (10.3.3.3). However pinging the LAN PC (192.168.1.100) returns no packets.

                    I can't claim to understand what the DNS lookup results mean! Or why the LAN PC has no Internet access.

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                      viragomann @Seamus
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                      You wrote this in your second post:
                      @seamus said in New ISP issues:

                      Traceroute from my PC on LAN completed with no problems - 9 hops to reach 8.8.4.4 and no times over 6ms. Pinging 8.8.4.4 also report no lost packets.

                      And this in your last:
                      @seamus said in New ISP issues:

                      However pinging the LAN PC (192.168.1.100) returns no packets.

                      Now what??
                      Can you ping the IP? If so can you ping dns.google.com?

                      It's hard to analyze a problem, when you provide contradictory information.

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                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Yes, that statement is what made it look like a DNS issue initially but if that's no longer the case then look at the firewall rules on LAN and the outbound NAT rules.

                        Steve

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                          Seamus @viragomann
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                          @viragomann said in New ISP issues:

                          It's hard to analyze a problem, when you provide contradictory information.

                          You may have a point viragomann, I don’t understand it myself. So I have just run through the setup wizard again on pfSense and I’ve done some more testing. This is what I’m getting.

                          Ping from PC (192.168.1.100) to pfSense LAN (192.168.1.1) is successful – 0% loss
                          Pinging PC (192.168.1.100) from pfSense fails – 100% loss
                          Is this abnormal?
                          I’ve also done a Traceroute from PC and I’ll add the results presently. I can’t say I understand what the results mean!

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                            Seamus @Seamus
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                            @seamus said in New ISP issues:

                            Traceroute

                            Tracing route to 8.8.4.4 over a maximum of 30 hops
                            1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms pfSense [192.168.1.1]
                            2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.3.3.3
                            3 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 10.8.14.1
                            4 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 89.19.64.10
                            5 * * * Request timed out.
                            6 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 194.88.240.55
                            7 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 74.125.244.1
                            8 5 ms 4 ms 5 ms 74.125.244.7
                            9 6 ms 5 ms 6 ms 142.250.232.81
                            10 * * * Request timed out.
                            11 * * * Request timed out.
                            12 * * * Request timed out.
                            13 * * * Request timed out.
                            14 * * * Request timed out.
                            15 * * * Request timed out.
                            16 * * * Request timed out.
                            18 * * * Request timed out.
                            19 * * * Request timed out.
                            20 * * * Request timed out.
                            21 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 8.8.4.4
                            Traceroute complete.

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                              netblues @Seamus
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                              @seamus said in New ISP issues:

                              @viragomann said in New ISP issues:

                              It's hard to analyze a problem, when you provide contradictory information.

                              You may have a point viragomann, I don’t understand it myself. So I have just run through the setup wizard again on pfSense and I’ve done some more testing. This is what I’m getting.

                              Ping from PC (192.168.1.100) to pfSense LAN (192.168.1.1) is successful – 0% loss
                              Pinging PC (192.168.1.100) from pfSense fails – 100% loss
                              Is this abnormal?
                              I’ve also done a Traceroute from PC and I’ll add the results presently. I can’t say I understand what the results mean!

                              Turn off firewall /allow icmp echo replies to your pc.
                              trace says connectivity to the Internet is ok
                              No issues in both statements.

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Yeah seems OK so that starts to look like a DNS issue again. I assume DNS is failing on the client still?

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