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      mkubiak402 @Gertjan
      last edited by mkubiak402

      @gertjan said in a few website are being blocked?:

      resolving.

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @mkubiak402
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        @mkubiak402
        The Resolver can also forward.
        You didn't show what you've set here :

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        If you didn't check the "DNS Query Forwarding", you can safely remove 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 9.9.9.9 from the System >General Setup page, as they are not used / needed.

        What do you see when you do this :

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        As you can see, my pfSEnse (== 127.0.0.1 = the resolver) took 200 msec to resolve a2heaven.com to "91.196.124.110".

        If it didn't gave that answer, stop/de activate pfBlockernd-devel, and to the DNS lookup again.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Still check the DNS servers in use on the client itself. It may have something else configured there.

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @stephenw10
            last edited by

            Yeah, @mkubiak402, don't forget to show the output of "ipconfig /all", or equivalent, as shown above.

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              mkubiak402 @Gertjan
              last edited by

              @gertjan

              this is with "DNS Servers" in

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              i removed the 1.1.1.1 ect

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by stephenw10

                Ok, so Unbound cannot resolve it. Do you have any sort of filtering for DNS queries setup there? pfBlocker DNSBL?

                Since it appears to be a single IP address you could workaround this by just adding a host override for it. But that would break if the IP ever changed.

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                  mkubiak402 @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 said in a few website are being blocked?:

                  pfBlocker DNSBL

                  Well i have it installed now.. but this is an problem before that.
                  I am working on building new PFsense box and ill having to see if there is a change.
                  here is the block log its all my Wifes phone from her online games.

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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan @mkubiak402
                    last edited by

                    @mkubiak402

                    I saw in you image (first line) :

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                    I also use the StevenBlack DNSBL in pfBlockerng-devel - let's try :

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                    So, my unbound - the resolver (127.0.0.1) took 7 ms to answer 0.0.0.0 as this is for me the default when it found a host name 'krk.kargoo.com' that is listed on a DNSBL.

                    You don't have an answer, the Result block, so I presume unbound fails to resolve.

                    What do you see when you visit :

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                    This should be a huge page with thousands of hostnames unbound resolved recently, depening a bit on how many devices you have on your LAN(s).

                    Can you also show what this page shows : Status >System Logs >System > DNS Resolver - the last 30 40 lines or so.

                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                      mkubiak402 @Gertjan
                      last edited by mkubiak402

                      @gertjan

                      krk.kargoo.com This site can’t be reached

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                        terryzb
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                        Is it because these are not actual hostnames here?
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                          SteveITS Galactic Empire @terryzb
                          last edited by

                          @terryzb do you have TLS enabled? If so try disabling it. If you are forwarding DNS disable DNSSEC.

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                          • GertjanG
                            Gertjan @terryzb
                            last edited by

                            @terryzb

                            Wrong tests always give wrong answers :

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                            Good test :

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                            krk.kargoo.com = does not exist.

                            The right colom doesn't say : fill in some random description.
                            It says :
                            Hostname
                            Enter the DNS Server Hostname for TLS Verification in the DNS Resolver (optional).

                            = If you use TLS, enter the host name of 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9
                            No TLS ? You can leave (should ?) these empty.
                            That will be :
                            dns.google one.one.one.one and dns9.quad9.net

                            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Yeah, you entered a url and it must be a hostname there.

                              But also that hostname doesn't resolve. Not a pfSense issue.

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                                mkubiak402 @stephenw10
                                last edited by mkubiak402

                                @stephenw10

                                ok ignore that it was not saved that way i was just noting what they where too...

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                                  mkubiak402 @mkubiak402
                                  last edited by mkubiak402

                                  IDK I have done new Clean installs it works fine if i just use my Linksys router

                                  can I sent you my backup settings?

                                  its just strange that some odd webpages just don't work. I'll just have to deal with it or just though this thing in the trash.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    So what exactly is not working at this point?

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                                    • GertjanG
                                      Gertjan @mkubiak402
                                      last edited by

                                      @mkubiak402

                                      These :

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                                      are not needed at all.
                                      For info : Internet worked just fine before these existed - and will work just fine when they go extinct. Keep the DNS Resolver settings page all to default, and DNS will work just fine.

                                      Only if your are sure that your ISP is filtering your DNS requests, you might considering DNS forwarding.

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                        mkubiak402 @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        @stephenw10

                                        a2heaven.com is not working. there is some others that I have gotten complaints about before too bout I did not note them down.
                                        i live in a double and rent the other half main reason I'm using this is to split the networks so I can share the internet.

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                                        • johnpozJ
                                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Gertjan
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                                          @gertjan said in a few website are being blocked?:

                                          are not needed at all.

                                          Exactly... Also that choice is bad anyway even if using them.. google doesn't filter while quad9 does. And so does that opendns one, and 76.76.2.0 is some sort of freedns - do they filter or not?

                                          If your not forwarding those dns settings wouldn't be used by any client on your network, only pfsense if checking for say updates or packages, or trying to resolve something like ntp server or you click resolve an IP in the firewall log, etc.

                                          If your going to forward, you should make sure all that your forwarding to either filter or don't filter.. And to be honest forwarding to different dns that filters differently is bad as well.. Does quad9 filter the exact same stuff that cloudflare does? I doubt it very much.

                                          When you forward to more than 1 ns you have no idea which one might be used.. So they need to be doing the same stuff, be it filter or not filter, etc. If you ask googledns hey you get a response because not filtered, but you ask quad9 you don't get an answer because its filtered.. You really have no control over which one will be asked when, etc.

                                          For all you know browser is using doh..

                                          First step in troubleshooting any dns related problem is actually understanding what name server is being asked.. If your browser is using doh, or the client has their own dns set and not pointing to pfsense - what you have set in pfsense for dns be it forwarding or resolving has nothing to do with the clients problem.

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                                            mkubiak402 @johnpoz
                                            last edited by mkubiak402

                                            @johnpoz

                                            yeah I put them all in there to see if it would fix this problem..

                                            I all so did have the DNS settings in windows/Chrome to direct to PFseance. it did not help any thing so I returned every thing back to stock.
                                            this is legit the only problem I'm having with PFseance other then that its been fine I got my 2 Plex server to pass through it and my 24TB TrueNAS server.

                                            I'm just going to unhook this thing and get some something else I may mess with it down the road some more.
                                            sorry for wasting any ones time.

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