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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @droidus
      last edited by johnpoz

      @droidus

      yes that should work, if you allow access to unbound via firewall rule, its actually running - and you setup the host override in it - have seen users set up the override in dnsmasq (forwarder) when they are using unbound (resolver) or vise versa.

      $ nslookup ansible.home.lab 192.168.9.253
      Server:  sg4860.local.lan
      Address:  192.168.9.253
      
      Name:    ansible.home.lab
      Address:  192.168.1.138
      

      What error do you get - something like this?

      $ nslookup ansible.home.lab 192.168.9.254                 
      DNS request timed out.                                    
          timeout was 2 seconds.                                
      Server:  UnKnown                                          
      Address:  192.168.9.254                                   
                                                                
      DNS request timed out.                                    
          timeout was 2 seconds.                                
      DNS request timed out.                                    
          timeout was 2 seconds.                                
      DNS request timed out.                                    
          timeout was 2 seconds.                                
      DNS request timed out.                                    
          timeout was 2 seconds.                                
      *** Request to UnKnown timed-out                          
      

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        droidus @johnpoz
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        @johnpoz All I get is this:
        c2756ecc-18bd-4bf4-8ae1-e3e427b62821-image.png
        1.2 is the IP of the pfsense box.
        Here's the LAN fw rules I have enabled:
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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @droidus
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          @droidus it never comes back with any sort of error or timeout?

          just type nslookup, what does it come back with?

          example: here I just type nslookup, then change the server and ask for the host override

          $ nslookup
          Default Server:  pi.hole
          Address:  192.168.3.10
          
          > server 192.168.9.253
          Default Server:  sg4860.local.lan
          Address:  192.168.9.253
          
          > ansible.home.lab
          Server:  sg4860.local.lan
          Address:  192.168.9.253
          
          Name:    ansible.home.lab
          Address:  192.168.1.138
          
          >
          

          When you change the server to the IP of pfsense, it should come back with pfsense name - if not then that is indication there is something wrong. See how mine comes back with sg4860.local.lan when I change to my pfsense IP.

          If unbound doesn't answer, then your client should give a timeout.. If it talked to unbound then you should get some sort of answer, nx, serv fail, something..

          For example if I ask for something that just isn't going to resolve..

          > lsjfsldf.soldjfsdsldf.com
          Server:  sg4860.local.lan
          Address:  192.168.9.253
          
          *** sg4860.local.lan can't find lsjfsldf.soldjfsdsldf.com: Non-existent domain
          

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            droidus @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz I'm not sure if this is good practice or not (at least for home use) or even possible, but is it possible to just use "ansible" instead of including the sld&tld? Ie "ansible.home.lab"? For example, I would be able to "ping ansible".

            BTW, I got the resolution working now!

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @droidus
              last edited by johnpoz

              @droidus if you want to just type in ansible then you could setup your OS to use a search suffix so it would auto add home.lab, and or other suffixes you would use.

              So for example if I just ping ansible notice it doesn't work.

              $ ping ansible
              Ping request could not find host ansible. Please check the name and try again.
              

              But if I add home.lab to my suffix search.

              suffix.jpg

              $ ping ansible
              
              Pinging ansible.home.lab [192.168.1.138] with 32 bytes of data:
              

              What was wrong - what did you change, why wasn't it working before?

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                droidus @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz Got it. Was just wondering if there was any way to modify the request so that I don't have to go to every server/machine and do mods like that. Will have to look into how to do that for linux.... I believe it's the resolv.conf file.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @droidus
                  last edited by

                  @droidus just use fqdn when you looking for something.. Much better than having suffix search, which will quite often add that to every single query be you need them or not..

                  So for example if you were looking for www.google.com, you end up with an query as well for www.google.com.home.lab

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                  • NollipfSenseN
                    NollipfSense
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                    Op should modify firewall rule to be more specific and exact...source - LAN.net Destination - THIS FIREWALL

                    Screenshot 2023-06-11 at 1.09.44 PM.png

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                      droidus @NollipfSense
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                      @NollipfSense Got it, thank you. I've updated those two rules. Should I apply the same logic to any other rules, such as the ones surrounding them?:
                      f10dfd92-5d03-486c-946c-d3dfc465d188-image.png

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @droidus
                        last edited by johnpoz

                        @droidus said in Local DNS resolution & blocking of a domain & pfblockerng:

                        such as the ones surrounding them?:

                        You should always be as specific as possible with rules.. This firewall is not specific to be honest. If this is your lan net, that would be the IP it would be talking to for dns, ie lan address. Why would something on your lan be talking to say opt X on pfsense IP for dns? or you wan IP? "This firewall" is an alias that has all the IPs on pfsense.

                        Do you use this lan net as a transit network? How would something be talking to your lan interface from the lan net coming from any IP other than lan net? There is no reason to have any as the source, unless the interface is a transit network, and even then it should be limited to the IPs as source, why would you not know your downstream networks using this interface as a transit..

                        Also what client would be using dot? (853) Clients use doh, dot is more for resolvers or forwarders to use.. Also for you to use dot from a client do you have that setup with cert that your clients would trust?

                        What do you have behind pfsense that is using dot? And for that matter why would you need to encrypt dns queries across your own network?

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