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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      If it's enabled on the VLAN interfaces in pfSense there isn't anything else required. It has to be some issue with the VLAN config if pfSense never sees the DHCP request broadcasts.

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        Rockyuk @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 I just purchased a new switch TP-Link TL-SG605E I have tagged the link port to pfsense server and untagged the port to device. I have done the same on all 3 ports 2, 3 and 4. All ports are picking up the default lan dhcp IP's and not the individual VLAN ones. Any ideas?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by stephenw10

          Does it have a separate setting for the PVID on each port?

          Did you remove those ports from the default VLAN?

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            Rockyuk @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 Yeah, as I changed hardware and had to restart the VLAN process.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Yeah you need to set the PVID on those ports to tag the traffic coming into them onto the correct VLAN. So PVID 20 on port 2 etc.

              And I would also remove ports 2,3 & 4 from the default vlan otherwise hosts there will see broadcasts from that.

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                Rockyuk @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 Grrrrrrrr, that is so frustrating something as simple as that I missed and worked first time 😢 Thank you very much

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Yeah seems as though switch manufacturers present those settings in different ways just catch you out. 😉

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                    Rockyuk @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 I have one more question, I am unable to view my websites on my server locally again. I had the issue when I first started using pfsense. I have split-dns setup and NAT reflection but it is still not working. I have VLAN's but that should not make a difference as I had it working on my previous hardware with the same config? Any idea's?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      If you have split DNS and it's working correctly, the hosts resolve as internal IPs, then you should only need firewall rules to allow it.

                      The server could potentially refuse access from that source.

                      The server may attempt to use some other route if it's multihomed in both subnets.

                      How does it fail? What errors do you see? Do you see blocked traffic in the firewall log?

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                        Rockyuk @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 In the browser all I get is ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED I can't see any blocks in the firewall logs etc

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                          Rockyuk
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                          Screenshot 1
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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Can you re-upload those screenshots. There was an issue with pictures on the forum that is now fixed.

                            What happens if you just try to resolve the host from the command line on the test device? What error do you see?

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                              Rockyuk
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                              screenshot 1
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                              The other weird thing is the control panel for the server works locally & remotely and I can access that. But I cannot access the other three domains which is bizarre!

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                                Rockyuk @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 I just did a nslookup for my laptop and got the following

                                Server: 127.0.0.53
                                Address: 127.0.0.53#53

                                ** server can't find mydomain.com: SERVFAIL

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Ok, seems like it's not using Unbound in pfSense for DNS then. Do thet resolve to the internal addresses from Diag > DNS Lookup?

                                  Though if it's using some external DNS server I'd expect it to resolve to the pfSense public IP.

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                                    Rockyuk @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 Ok, no idea what is going on but it is all working now. It could have been the DNS Propagation even though I changed everything over on Thursday night! Thank you once again for your help.

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