Strange DNS problem…
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Hi.
I have a simple setup like this:
Router –-- LAN for most of the house ---- my pfsense box ---- my two computersThe thing is that after a period of time (from 5 seconds to 10min normally, but up to several hours some times) no domain names are being resolved. If I constantly keep browsing one specific page I can stay there pretty long, but if I try to access another one it doesn't find it. But I do not get disconnected from MSN.
This problem is "reset" every time I release and renew the WAN IP of my pfsense box and the IP of my computers or when I restart dnsmasq.I then tried to install TinyDNS to see if that helped, it kinda did... The strange thing I described above stops, but it takes long to resolve the domain names the first time (like 5-30 seconds) and if I'm not browsing that page for some time the long delay comes back, this is very annoying. (Another problem that occured was that the overrides I had in the DNS forwarder no longer works, but I kinda expected that)
I have checked and unchecked the "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN" with no effect on any of the problems.If there is anything about my setup you want more details on, just ask and I will do my best to explain.
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I would boot from the livcd and keep it as default as possible to confirm it's not a hardware thing and change lan ip to something like 10.0.x.x/24 if your router uses 192.168.x.x/24
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I tried what you said. Booted up from the livecd and only changed the IP, exactly same thing happens… But can it be a hardware problem? Doesn't really look like that way (But what do I know..?)
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Could it be a MTU problem? http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9301.msg52658.html#msg52658
else recheck network settings on lan clients -
As for the MTU, i did a ping -f -l 1472 www.dslreports.com as the link in the post you linked to explained without getting a message telling med the packet needs to be fragmented.
What should I check on the lan clients? Both the laptop and desktop has been used in several different networks and I havn't had any problems earlier. (They both run Win Vista btw) -
What should I check on the lan clients?
If it had a wrong gateway or dns servers.
If the vista clients are set with opendns dns servers does it then work?
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220Else i only know of this post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3528.0.html
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The gateway and dns at the clients were set to my pfsense boxs IP (10.0.0.1) as they should. Now when I tried disabled dnsforwarder and set the opendns IPs as dns servers it seems to work, gonna give it some more time before i yell hoooray though. But I will not be able to override names now?
Thanks for your help btw, really appreciate it :)
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Go to System/General Setup/ DNS Servers…
What do you have there?
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I wrote in the 2 IPs to OpenDNS that Perry gave me. And it seems to be working ;D