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PfSense Troubleshooting

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    cysec
    last edited by Aug 7, 2023, 6:33 AM

    I trying to make a connection between the three machines which I installed in the Vmware Workstation Pro including pfsense, i already did a configuration both in the pfsense and the windows machine and assigned the static IP, I was able to ping from one machine to the other, even when i ping to the 8.8.8.8from my windows (vm) i got the reply. but the problem is that it always shows that there is no internet connection. and when i ping from the same windows using the domain name e.g., ping google.com it says "Ping request could not find the host google.com name". can you help me solve this?

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      viragomann @cysec
      last edited by Aug 7, 2023, 12:02 PM

      @cysec
      So obviously the Windows machine is not able to resolve host names.

      As you've did the network settings on the vm manually, you need also to configure a DNS server to be used. By default pfSense provides the DNS resolver, so you can set the pfSense interface IP as DNS on Windows.

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