WAN down - no CP?
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Hi,
our WAN-Connetion is sometimes unstable and offline for some time. If the user then tries to access the Internet, the
Captive Portal-Page does not show up because the DNS is unreachable.
Is there a way to redirect to the portal-page, even if the WAN is down?thanks, sascha
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Without DNS, the hostname never resolves to an IP, if the IP doesn't resolve, the client never makes a request, and pfSense can't redirect to a page if the client never makes the request.
Only possible way around that might be if you have some kind of default DNS response. I don't think the DNS forwarder in pfSense supports that, something like the ISP DNS setups that send you to a search page when they don't get a valid DNS response. If your clients were pointed at a local/internal DNS server that would return a response even on failure, it should work.
