IoT Devices Not Using DNS from DCHP
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@TangoOversway that is from a wifi connection.. You sure your wifi is not handing that out? Or it could be set on device itself.. Just because you use dhcp to get an IP doesn't mean you can't set a dns locally.
Have already gone over this - if pfsense was handing out that for dns in its dhcp server then every single client on your network would be getting it. Every one..
Unless you have setup a reservation for that device - and changed the settings.
On your pfsense do you have a dhcp reservation set for that mac?
Here look - here is my normal dhcp scope for my 192.168.3.0/24 network... I hand out all clients on this network dns of 192.168.3.10, by default it would hand out pfsense IP on that interface.
But in a reservation for a specific client, my pihole in this case I hand out a different dns server.. Pfsense IP 192.168.3.253
Do you have any such reservations (static mappings) setup for your esp box?
Lets see your dhcp server settings on pfsense, and if you show any static mappings at the bottom of the page
Also we already went over how to validate with a packet capture on pfsense - what IP it offers to the dhcp client.
You should see pfsense see the discover from the esp the offer and ack, etc.
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@johnpoz Okay - just realized that even though I've assigned it an address. I have not, specifically, told it what to use for the DNS and gateway. It's getting the proper gateway. I think I forgot I have to specifically set the DNS in each DHCP entry. (I thought it was automatic.)
I'll test that out when I get back to that computer this afternoon.
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@TangoOversway if you leave the dns blank - it will provide the IP address of pfsense interface.
See when I delete - it shows the default which is pfsense IP on that interface
See how its a gray color.
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@johnpoz I thought that was how it worked - leave the DNS, search domain, or gateway blank, and it should use the default - and I have set them, in the DHCP server page, to the pfSense system. So, by transitive property, it should be getting the proper DNS server from the pfSense DHCP server. Otherwise, as we've agreed, other systems would be having this kind of issue.
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@TangoOversway the only way this one client could be different is if you set a reservation for it and changed what it points to, or it is set locally on the device..
Any os can set the dns locally and still get IP from dhcp.. Even windows allows you to do that.
You can even do that on your phone, etc.
Or its not using pfsense dhcp and you some other dhcp handing out the same IP range, etc. Like dhcp on your wifi or something.
But yes if no reservation setup in pfsense for this mac address or every other mac address on your network having their own reservations.. And pfsense was handing out that IP for dns - everyone would get it.
That doesn't seem to show the IP it got dhcp from - but a simple sniff on pfsense would validate it handed out the info that client, or you could just look in pfsense leases table, etc.
And if you want to for sure validate pfsense is not handing out that IP you could do the packet capture of the dhcp transaction and look for yourself what pfsense offered.
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@johnpoz You're going to find this extremely interesting. I have double checked all of this to be sure.
I know about the defaults and they're well labelled. If you don't set the DNS and gateway in the DHCP page, then it'll use the pfSense/DHCP/DNS address as a default. So if I've got it at 172.16.7.1, the DHCP server will provide that as the DNS server and gateway by default, even if I don't specify it.
I had not specified it in the DHCP configuration page, and had not specified it in the entry page for the ESP chip. (If I'm using a default, I don't explicitly specify it again "downline," since that just means I have to change it later if I ever change from the default.) So here's the DHCP Server configuration page:
Note that while it states that the pfSense unit acting as DHCP server will be used for the DNS and gateway, that it does not fill them in, ghosted. (It could be I need to update to the latest version for that.)And here's the DHCP page for the ESP32. Same thing. The default is not showing in gray:
So I went through and set the DNS and gateway in both pages and saved them, then restarted the DHCP for it to take effect. Then I rebooted the ESP32. I checked the info to get the new DNS info after the reboot:
FINALLY - it has the correct DNS server! I even waited a couple minutes to check to be sure it wasn't just something that had not been set yet after reboot and it was still correct, so I took a screenshot.
BUT - and this is the part that's just weird and interesting - I took that screenshot, was so glad it showed the right DNS, that I wrote up this post. Then, just to be sure I read it right, I went back and looked at that page again, and it's back to the bogon:
Somehow, between about 1-2 minutes after boot, and in the time it took to post the screen caps, it changed from the right DNS to the bogon.
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This is interesting........
I may be wrong , but your subnet mask shoud be 255.255.255.0 and your available range should go from 172.16.4.1 to 172. 16.4 254 not 172.16.7 254.
So if your IOT device is on the 172.16.4. 1 network. Your gateway and DNS should be the same, 172.16.4.1.
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@Uglybrian said in IoT Devices Not Using DNS from DCHP:
I may be wrong , but your subnet mask shoud be 255.255.255.0 and your available range should go from 172.16.4.1 to 172. 16.4 254 not 172.16.7 254.
That's the range for unassigned addresses. I use them in blocks throughout the range specified by the subnet mask.
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@Uglybrian he is on purpose using a /22 nothing wrong with that.
Yeah @TangoOversway that is odd.. hmmmm - I have been out drinking with a buddy so let me take a look at this in the morning when not just back from multiple beers. But good screen grabs.. Odd for sure.
Off the top - not sure what could be going on.. a dhcp inform maybe? but what would be handing that out - I still lean towards something local on the esp device.
What specific version of pfsense are you running - might be the beers, but pretty sure the ghosted IP in the dhcp setting isn't something new. Be it shows ghosted IP that would be handed out our not.. There is no way that 253 should be handed out..
A packet capture - you could look for informs. You could download your config and then do a search in the xml to see if that 253 address is anywhere in your xml.
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Didn’t find 253 in the xml file.
Realized I have not updated in over a year! (It’s hard to keep track of all the devices that I have to update!) So I upgraded to the next version and started the upgrade to the version after that - and it’s not rebooting. So I have to deal with that for now. Yes, I have my config backed up - did that when I downloaded it to my desktop to search for 253.
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Well, spent the last 15 hours trying to get my SG1100 working again. Ran into trouble at every step of the way. I need an offline installer, since the install program can't connect to the Netgate servers. (I suspect that has to do with the Starlink router using the same address space on the WAN side that pfSense defaults to use on the LAN side.)
So I don't know if I'll ever be able to get back to this. Lost 15 hours of time, plus income, plus wife's income (can't work remotely after a snow storm), and I'm wondering if my device is ever going to work again - or if I have to wait for a paycheck so I can get a new one and then just sit around and wait for it to arrive.
