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    Seems that hacker is inserting a foreign DNS into my computer, how to remove it?

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      Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz Okay, that may explain. You may be able to help me fix this, technology is very complicated and can be frustrating these days.
      Not very good with those firewalls and Netgate with pfSense may have almost 4-500 settings..

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
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        @Netgate1100guy happy to help - what exactly are you seeing.. Is your pc a windows machine? Can you post up say your ipconfig /all from this pc?

        Example here is mine..

        $ ipconfig /all                                                                           
                                                                                                  
        Windows IP Configuration                                                                  
                                                                                                  
           Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : i9-win                                             
           Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : local.lan                                          
           Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast                                          
           IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No                                                 
           WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No                                                 
           DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : local.lan                                          
                                                                                                  
        Ethernet adapter Local:                                                                   
                                                                                                  
           Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : local.lan                                          
           Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Killer E2600 Gigabit Ethernet Controller           
           Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : B0-4F-13-0B-FD-16                                  
           DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes                                                
           Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes                                                
           IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.9.100(Preferred)                           
           Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0                                      
           Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, July 24, 2023 2:36:06 PM                   
           Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, July 28, 2023 2:36:06 PM                   
           Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.9.253                                      
           DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.9.253                                      
           DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.9.253                                      
           NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled                                            
        

        I currently do not have IPv6 enabled on this machine.. If your machine has Ipv6 enabled - it for sure can have more than just 1 gua IPv6 address and the link-local address. And if you have Ipv6, it would for sure like to use some IPv6 address as its dns..

        Happy to help you figure out what is going on - but need some specifics to understand what is actually going on.

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          Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
          last edited by Firewalldude89

          @johnpoz Okay good, I use Mac though so different details on ipconfig, but you may still help me?

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            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
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            @Netgate1100guy sure - but need some details of what exactly you are seeing, and what is happening that you think shouldn't be happening.

            Normally with Ipv6 you will have temp IPv6 or sometimes call privacy Ips..

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              Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz

              ifconfig
              
              lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
              	options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
              	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
              	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
              	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
              stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
              anpi1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether a6:bf:9d:78:5b:a2 
              	inet6 fe80::a4bf:9dff:fe78:5ba2%anpi1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: none
              	status: inactive
              anpi0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether a6:bf:9d:78:5b:a1 
              	inet6 fe80::a4bf:9dff:fe78:5ba1%anpi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: none
              	status: inactive
              en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=50b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV,CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether 4c:20:b8:a7:f2:61 
              	inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
              	inet6 fe80::c17:77f:669f:7409%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x6 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,energy-efficient-ethernet>)
              	status: active
              en4: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether a6:bf:9d:78:5b:81 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: none
              	status: inactive
              en5: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether a6:bf:9d:78:5b:82 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: none
              	status: inactive
              en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=460<TSO4,TSO6,CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether 36:a0:3e:97:62:00 
              	media: autoselect <full-duplex>
              	status: inactive
              en3: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=460<TSO4,TSO6,CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether 36:a0:3e:97:62:04 
              	media: autoselect <full-duplex>
              	status: inactive
              bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=63<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6>
              	ether 36:a0:3e:97:62:00 
              	Configuration:
              		id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
              		maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
              		root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
              		ipfilter disabled flags 0x0
              	member: en2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
              	        ifmaxaddr 0 port 9 priority 0 path cost 0
              	member: en3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
              	        ifmaxaddr 0 port 10 priority 0 path cost 0
              	media: <unknown type>
              	status: inactive
              ap1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether 6e:20:b8:a8:41:a8 
              	media: autoselect
              en1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether 4c:20:b8:a8:41:a8 
              	media: autoselect
              	status: inactive
              awdl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=6463<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,CHANNEL_IO,PARTIAL_CSUM,ZEROINVERT_CSUM>
              	ether ae:fb:7d:02:66:2a 
              	inet6 fe80::acfb:7dff:fe02:662a%awdl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xe 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
              	status: inactive
              llw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
              	options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
              	ether ae:fb:7d:02:66:2a 
              	inet6 fe80::acfb:7dff:fe02:662a%llw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xf 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              	media: autoselect
              	status: inactive
              utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1380
              	inet6 fe80::539a:143b:2cea:5964%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x10 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              utun1: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 2000
              	inet6 fe80::f1cd:d392:cf63:9f22%utun1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x11 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              utun2: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1000
              	inet6 fe80::ce81:b1c:bd2c:69e%utun2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x12 
              	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
              
              
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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
                last edited by

                @Netgate1100guy There are no IPv6 addresses there, only Ipv6 link-local..

                And your IPv4 address of 192.168.1.100

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                  Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz Yes, I cannot log in to console

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                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
                    last edited by johnpoz

                    @Netgate1100guy you mean you can not access the pfsense web gui at what address? What IP does pfsense have?

                    Is this 192.168.1.x network from your above output pfsense lan network?

                    Can you ping pfsense IPv4 address? or do you mean you can not ssh to pfsense - for you to ssh to pfsense you would of had to enable ssh..

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                      Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz I cannot log in to the admin console to configure firewall by using web

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                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
                        last edited by

                        @Netgate1100guy and can you ping pfsense IP, it would default to 192.168.1.1.. Do you get any page, and your login is just failing?

                        Are you trying to access it via the actual IP or using some fqdn in your browser?

                        I think there was threads about where web page was not available after update to 2.7? Is this a clean install, did you upgrade from some previous pfsense version? Did it ever work?

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                          Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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                          @johnpoz via the actual IP.
                          Think there was a very recent upgrade.

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                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
                            last edited by johnpoz

                            @Netgate1100guy dude why does it feel like am I needing to pull teeth here?

                            Do you get a blank page? Does it show you a login but login not working - or seems to stall after login?

                            Can you ping pfsense IP? Had you enabled ssh, can you ssh to it? Can you console in, ie use console cable? Can you ping some public IP? say 8.8.8.8 from your PC, is internet actually still working.

                            How does the pfsense web gui won't load via IP address have anything to do with some hacker inserting dns?

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                              michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @johnpoz
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                              @johnpoz you have the patience of a saint 😀

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                                JKnott @Firewalldude89
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                                @Netgate1100guy said in Seems that hacker is inserting a foreign DNS into my computer, how to remove it?:

                                There is often a secondary IPv6 address, which seems to be from hacker. Can Link Local IPv6 work
                                or what else?

                                ????

                                Where are you seeing the link local address? Every IPv6 capable device has one. However, given they're not routeable, they'd be pretty much useless for an attacker.

                                PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                                UniFi AC-Lite access point

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                                  Firewalldude89 @johnpoz
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                                  @johnpoz It shows me a login page but it stalls.

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                                    michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @Firewalldude89
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                                    @Netgate1100guy turn off the firewall and keep it off for 9 days. That should solve it. Come back and let us know if that works.
                                    Also, as a last resort try turning off the cable modem just in case. You should be clear from the hacker after that. Worked for me

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                                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Firewalldude89
                                      last edited by

                                      @Netgate1100guy said in Seems that hacker is inserting a foreign DNS into my computer, how to remove it?:

                                      It shows me a login page but it stalls.

                                      Stalls? If pfsense has no working dns then yes the login page can be very slow.. From what you posted before - pfsense has only an actual IP on 1 interface - so hard to image that it would have working dns.. So yeah the login is prob going to be very slow.

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                                        rcoleman-netgate Netgate @Firewalldude89
                                        last edited by rcoleman-netgate

                                        @Netgate1100guy said in Seems that hacker is inserting a foreign DNS into my computer, how to remove it?:

                                        @johnpoz It shows me a login page but it stalls.

                                        Connect via the console.

                                        Tell your 1100 to reboot.

                                        Attempt a GUI login again.

                                        Does the console report any errors?

                                        However as @johnpoz notes if your WAN isn't connected or your DNS upstream isn't working pages can take some time to load. Also loading the initial dashboard from the LAN also can take time to load but other pages afterwards are quick to load.

                                        Try loading a subpage after logging in from your URL history. This is how I bypass the 30-second wait.

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                                          rcoleman-netgate Netgate @michmoor
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                                          @michmoor said in Seems that hacker is inserting a foreign DNS into my computer, how to remove it?:

                                          You should be clear from the hacker after that. Worked for me

                                          Not helpful...

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                                            michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @rcoleman-netgate
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                                            @rcoleman-netgate There is seeking help and then there is trolling. We crossed that boundary several posts ago. If there is no attempt by the OP to seek assistance then how is my attempt at helping any different than others? Plus they stopped responding.

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