Local DNS resolution not working
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How is your WAN configured? If static, you need to enter DNS server IP's on the General page.
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WAN is configured as DHCP. What else can I check?
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When you go to Status > Interfaces, does it show DNS servers there under WAN? On the General page, do you have the "allow override" box checked?
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DNS servers are listed under the WAN section. And yes, the "allow override" box is checked. I also manually entered the LAN IP address of my pfsense box in the DNS Servers section.
I also want to mention that local DNS resolution was working properly before. It may have stopped working when I updated pfSense from 1.2 Beta 1 to 1.2 Beta 2.
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If you go to the ping page on pfsense, can you ping domain names from there?
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I am able to ping LAN hosts via the ping page on the pfsense box successfully. Even if I enter the short DNS name, it will come back as the FQDN on the LAN and ping successfully.
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If there aren't any more suggestions (but I do appreciate the troubleshooting, cmb), I'm going to make an educated guess about my issue. Since DNS was working before when I was running 1.2 Beta 1, and I haven't heard anyone else having local DNS issues on 1.2 Beta 2, I'm going to assume my issue popped up when I did the update to 1.2 Beta 2.
I think that the easiest route for me to resolve this problem is to re-run the Setup Wizard from the web interface. Of course, I will make a backup before doing so. But does anyone know what configuration settings I might lose from running the Setup Wizard?
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I lost power on my pfSense box when a storm hit today. When it came back up , local DNS started working again. No clue why that worked (because I have tried rebooting) or if it was a coincidence, but whatever!
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I have the same issue.
My hosts can't resolve internal FQDNs. But they can resolve external. I have also checked the different settings as adviced earlier. And they are as they should be.
I have had this problem before, and it was corrected by a reboot of the router.
My version is:
1.2-RELEASE
built on Sun Feb 24 17:04:58 EST 2008 -
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