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    Multi WAN browsing redirection issues

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    • J
      jan.gestre
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I have configured a multi WAN setup i.e. WAN, WAN1, and WAN2, but some of the sites that users are trying to access gets redirected to google.com, is there a way to resolve this? BTW I'm using google's public DNS and I have DNS blacklist installed if that matters.

      TIA

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      • J
        jan.gestre
        last edited by

        Additional information:

        Pinging by pfSense's gui resolves to the correct ip address but when done on the workstation, it returns an ip address that does not belong.

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        • GruensFroeschliG
          GruensFroeschli
          last edited by

          Try to use another DNS server
          208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 are from openDNS.

          We do what we must, because we can.

          Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          • J
            jan.gestre
            last edited by

            @GruensFroeschli:

            Try to use another DNS server
            208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 are from openDNS.

            It appears that DNS forwarder is the one causing the issue, if DNS forwarder is enabled and whether I'm on multi WAN or not, the issue is there but when I disabled DNS forwarder I don't have issues.

            The drawback to this is that I have to manually configure all servers and workstations DNS entries and individually add the dns servers 208.67.222.222. This is weird because this is the first time I've experienced this, any suggestions?

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            • GruensFroeschliG
              GruensFroeschli
              last edited by

              I doubt that the problem lies with the DNS forwarder itself.
              The DNS forwarder just forwards DNS requests to the DNS-server you configured.
              What DNS-server did you configure for the pfSense?
              Did you check the box "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN".

              We do what we must, because we can.

              Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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              • J
                jan.gestre
                last edited by

                @GruensFroeschli:

                I doubt that the problem lies with the DNS forwarder itself.
                The DNS forwarder just forwards DNS requests to the DNS-server you configured.
                What DNS-server did you configure for the pfSense?
                Did you check the box "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN".

                Yes, DNS forwarder is just forwarding DNS requests but like I've mentioned previously something weird is happening. I've already tried a number of DNS servers already i.e. ISP's DNS, OpenDNS, Google's DNS, the result is the same, also unchecking/checking "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN" did not help.

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