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    Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname

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    • sysbitnetS
      sysbitnet
      last edited by sysbitnet

      Ok, I understand what you mean.

      Sow what I do and how can function what is shown in the lab case photo.

      Inside Firewall / NAT / Port Forward

      I removed all I moved to manage inside HAProxy how can allow or not allow addresses or ports.

      Inside Firewall / Rules / WAN create one rules with status PASS
      Protocol: TCP/UDP
      Source Address: Any
      Source Ports: Any
      Dest. Address: ! Local address
      Dest. Ports: Any
      And enable Log packets that are handled by this rule

      Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

      Name: Back_VM1_443
      Mode: active
      Name: web1
      Forward to: Address+Port
      Address: 192.168.100.1
      Port: 443
      Encrypt(SSL): yes
      SSL checks: yes
      And in the Health check method set: basic

      Name: Back_VM2_443
      Mode: active
      Name: web2
      Forward to: Address+Port
      Address: 192.168.100.2
      Port: 443
      Encrypt(SSL): yes
      SSL checks: yes
      And in the Health check method set: HTTP

      ===============

      Name: Back_VM1_80
      Mode: active
      Name: web1
      Forward to: Address+Port
      Address: 192.168.100.1
      Port: 80
      And in the Health check method set: basic

      Name: Back_VM2_80
      Mode: active
      Name: web2
      Forward to: Address+Port
      Address: 192.168.100.2
      Port: 80
      And in the Health check method set: HTTP

      Inside Back_VM2_443 and Back_VM2_80 I set it up on purpose And in the Health check method set: HTTP
      How can testing HTTP protocol to check on the servers' health be used for HTTPS servers(requires checking the SSL box for the servers).

      How i configure On the Frontend part.

      Services / HAProxy / Frontend
      Name: Front_Port_443
      External address
      Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
      Port: 443
      SSL Offloading: yes

      In Access Control lists inside the same
      Name: web1
      Expression: Host matches
      CS: empty
      Not: empty
      Value: web1.domain.com

      Name: web2
      Expression: Host matches
      CS: empty
      Not: empty
      Value: web2.domain.com

      In part Actions inside the same

      Action Use Backend the name that i set on Back_VM1_443
      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists web1

      And second Use Backend the name that i set on Back_VM2_443
      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists web2

      And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

      And create one more rules for port 80

      Name: Front_Port_80
      External address
      Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
      Port: 80
      SSL Offloading: no

      In Access Control lists inside the same
      Name: web1
      Expression: Host matches
      CS: empty
      Not: empty
      Value: web1.domain.com

      Name: web2
      Expression: Host matches
      CS: empty
      Not: empty
      Value: web2.domain.com

      In part Actions inside the same

      Action Use Backend the name that i set on Back_VM1_80
      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists web1

      And second Use Backend the name that i set on Back_VM2_80
      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists web2

      And i need to say i did not set a custom TCP port to access on pfsense inside System / Advanced / Admin Access TCP port "Enter a custom port number for the webConfigurator above to override the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). Changes will take effect immediately after save."

      And with this configuration finally, lab it is working, what do you think guys?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by stephenw10

        I would set the destination on the WAN firewall rule to something that contains only the IPs you expect HAProxy to receive connections on. So maybe an alias with those IPs in it or set it to the WAN subnet if the VIPs are inside that.

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        • sysbitnetS
          sysbitnet @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10

          You man inside Firewall / Rules / WAN where i create one rule with status PASS
          Protocol: TCP/UDP
          Source Address: ! WAN address
          Source Ports: Any
          Dest. Address: ! Local address
          Dest. Ports: Any
          And enable Log packets that are handled by this rule

          I plan to test and create an inside Firewall / Aliases / Ports list of only ports that who lab user or service can use.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @sysbitnet
            last edited by

            @sysbitnet said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

            Dest. Address: ! Local address

            I mean that is too wide a match. It would match a lot of traffic that shouldn't be allowed. Though I don't know exactly what 'Local' is there. The only traffic you should allow into the WAN should have a destination of the IPs HAProxy is listening on. So at most the WAN address and/or the VIPs on the WAN.

            And yes the destination ports should probably be an alias of 443 and 80 only.

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            • sysbitnetS
              sysbitnet @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10

              In the lab case, i have only one public IP but if I understand your suggestion.

              I plan to see you for testing on Firewall / Aliases / IP

              Name: web1
              IP: 192.168.100.1

              Name: web2
              IP: 192.168.100.2

              And create an inside Firewall / Aliases / Ports list of only ports that who lab user or service can use like.

              Name: WWW
              Ports: 80, 443

              And to inside Firewall / Rules / WAN where i create a rule with the status PASS
              Protocol: TCP/UDP
              Source Address: ! WAN address
              Source Ports: Any
              Dest. Address: web1
              Dest. Ports: WWW
              And enable Log packets that are handled by this rule

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              • sysbitnetS
                sysbitnet
                last edited by sysbitnet

                I just tried to add like new service wowza and when visited VM3 with http://192.168.100.3:8088 in the local host i saw see login page, but when i try to access wowza with a set domain name like http://wowza.domain.com:8088 i get this result

                503 Service Unavailable
                No server is available to handle this request.

                when i check with the LISTEN port like this

                root@dev:~# lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN
                systemd     1            root   40u  IPv6 8353844      0t0  TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
                systemd-r  96 systemd-resolve   14u  IPv4 8354932      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.53:53 (LISTEN)
                java      123            root   25u  IPv4 8347558      0t0  TCP *:8088 (LISTEN)
                java      287            root    8u  IPv4 8355219      0t0  TCP *:41183 (LISTEN)
                java      287            root  164u  IPv4 8353064      0t0  TCP *:8087 (LISTEN)
                java      287            root  172u  IPv4 8358134      0t0  TCP *:8083 (LISTEN)
                java      287            root  187u  IPv4 8358172      0t0  TCP *:1935 (LISTEN)
                java      287            root  191u  IPv4 8358176      0t0  TCP *:8086 (LISTEN)
                master    358            root   13u  IPv4 8347603      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:25 (LISTEN)
                master    358            root   14u  IPv6 8347604      0t0  TCP [::1]:25 (LISTEN)
                

                I created the same as i did earlier for port 80 and port 443 but is not working.

                I know i need to add SSL, but as i write this is lab testing, not production.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @sysbitnet
                  last edited by

                  @sysbitnet said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                  Dest. Address: web1

                  That destination on the WAN would be the WAN address if you don't have any VIPs on it. web1 is an internal IP that could never be reached by an external host.

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                  • sysbitnetS
                    sysbitnet
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10

                    Do you maybe know what can be a problem why i get

                    503 Service Unavailable
                    No server is available to handle this request.

                    When i try to use another service like Wowza?

                    Port 80,443 its working perfect, but when i wont to add on the same case other port or services i get the same error

                    503 Service Unavailable
                    No server is available to handle this request.

                    Thank you

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      I don't know what Wowza is. What exactly have you added? How are you testing it? What do you expect to see?

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                      • sysbitnetS
                        sysbitnet @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10

                        Wowza is a video platform with industry-leading technology that delivers quality live and VOD streaming with integrated CMS, analytics, and more.

                        But i have the same problem when i try another service, like access on proxmox or any other service who requests another port number but is not port 443 and port 80

                        Any time i get
                        503 Service Unavailable
                        No server is available to handle this request.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Sounds like HAProxy it not configured to use that port so it just returns that 503 error.

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                          • sysbitnetS
                            sysbitnet
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10
                            I agree with you.

                            How can testing what is the problem only leave this service, for example, i used to test proxmox.

                            Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

                            Name: PM_8006
                            Mode: active
                            Name: pm
                            Forward to: Address+Port
                            Address: 192.168.100.3
                            Port: 8006
                            Encrypt(SSL): yes
                            SSL checks: yes
                            And in the Health check method set: basic

                            How i configure On the Frontend part.

                            Services / HAProxy / Frontend
                            Name: PM_Front
                            External address
                            Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
                            Port: 8006
                            SSL Offloading: yes

                            In Access Control lists inside the same
                            Name: pm
                            Expression: Host matches
                            CS: empty
                            Note: empty
                            Value: pm.domain.com

                            In part Actions inside the same

                            Action Use Backend the name that i set on PM_8006
                            Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists pm

                            And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

                            The same certificate and added inside proxmox, because is letsencrypt wildcard certificate

                            And when i try to visit https://pm.domain.com:8006/ the result is like this below message.

                            503 Service Unavailable
                            No server is available to handle this request.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              What do you logged?

                              Do you see states created on port 8006? For both front and back end?

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                              • sysbitnetS
                                sysbitnet @stephenw10
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                                • sysbitnetS
                                  sysbitnet
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10

                                  I do the same as how i explained in my last post.

                                  I tried many other services that request custom ports and got the same.

                                  503 Service Unavailable
                                  No server is available to handle this request.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    So do you see states created?

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                                    • sysbitnetS
                                      sysbitnet
                                      last edited by

                                      Yes, I set.

                                      When i do this just for testing
                                      Firewall-NAT-Port-Forward-pm.jpg
                                      How can i see if i correctly configured and tried to access it, this is working perfectly.

                                      IP_ProxMox is set localhost IP set inside Firewall / Aliases / IP

                                      When i disable this Port Forward and now testing to login again like https://pm.domain.com:8006 i get this result

                                      503 Service Unavailable
                                      No server is available to handle this request.

                                      If i have a set like this inside HAProxy

                                      @sysbitnet said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                                      Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

                                      Name: PM_8006
                                      Mode: active
                                      Name: pm
                                      Forward to: Address+Port
                                      Address: 192.168.100.3
                                      Port: 8006
                                      Encrypt(SSL): yes
                                      SSL checks: yes
                                      And in the Health check method set: basic

                                      How i configure On the Frontend part.

                                      Services / HAProxy / Frontend
                                      Name: PM_Front
                                      External address
                                      Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
                                      Port: 8006
                                      SSL Offloading: yes

                                      In Access Control lists inside the same
                                      Name: pm
                                      Expression: Host matches
                                      CS: empty
                                      Note: empty
                                      Value: pm.domain.com

                                      In part Actions inside the same

                                      Action Use Backend the name that i set on PM_8006
                                      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists pm

                                      And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

                                      The same certificate and added inside proxmox, because is letsencrypt wildcard certificate

                                      And when i try to visit https://pm.domain.com:8006/ the result is like this below message.

                                      503 Service Unavailable
                                      No server is available to handle this request.

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        But do you see states on port 8006 in Diag > States?

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                                        • sysbitnetS
                                          sysbitnet @stephenw10
                                          last edited by

                                          @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                                          But do you see states on port 8006 in Diag > States?

                                          If you mean on Diagnostics / States / States yes this is what i get as a result.

                                          Diagnostics-States-States.jpg

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Ok. So what is the LAB interface? What are the IPs there?

                                            I expect to see a port 8006 state on WAN whilst you're testing.

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