unbound quits working due to direct LAN connection
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Netgate 1100, 24.11, using unbound for DNS
A shout out of thanks to Gertjan for his post to my query back on July 10, 2024. He said at the time:
"Is this physically the case : your PC is wired directly to pfSense, as this would be 'not good'.
It would be better if there was a switch between the 1100 and your the PC.
A PC (any device) connected directly to LAN would, on powerup, trigger a network or NIC link-up event, and this would restart many pfSense processes - unbound (resolver) being one of them."Yup, he is sooo right here. After the July posts I put a switch between my Netgate and my Mac. My DNS problems vanished for months. A week or so ago I moved the switch to the OPT port (needed more ports for OPT), plugged my Mac directly back into the LAN port -- DNS problems again. When I found his port again, it was "ahah!" I need to get a second switch, one for LAN and one for OPT.
Thanks Gertjan. -
@beerguzzle or just a switch capable of vlans.. Any smart switch would work.
You can then have uplink to your lan, and uplink to your opt port and they would be isolated networks on your vlan capable switch.
but sure 2 dumb switches works too.