1 to 1 NAT Setup and Hostnames
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You can use the DNS forwarder as a DNS server for only the system behind it and have it hand out local addresses for certain hosts. You can then have pfSense use your official company DNS servers to resolve everything else. Good luck though if you still cannot make use of that.
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I am slightly confused. pfSense would hand out 192.168.. addresses and hostnames?
I think it's forwarding all the dns requests to our server? How would I do this?
Thanks
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At the bottom of the DNS forwarder is a host and domain override that you can use to override those queries to certain host names or full domains.
Yes, pfSense would override an internet routable IP with a private IP. Anything that is not in the host or domain overrides are passed through without modification. -
I'm still confused, what I want to do is have a outside address (1:1 NAT) for one of the servers.
Which might not be possible since we have MAC filtering? Is there anyway for the server's MAC address to go to the company's dns server?(DNS forwarding I'm not sure what to do, note: it's been enabled by default)Ideally I should be able to ping the router's public ip address and the server's public ip address.
So I think that's what I want to do, yet so far I haven't been able to set up 1:1 NAT, only port forwarding.
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Are you trying to access the servers from a system in the LAN or from outside the WAN?
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Outside the WAN (public IP addresses)
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My apologies, I thought you were trying to access from within the network.
In that case, when you remove the port forward, it probably removes the linked FW rule. For a 1:1 NAT, once you create the NAT, you have to go into the WAN rules and setup a rule to pass the traffic to the internal address. Do you have that rule created? -
Actually I don't have the NAT rule set up.
I have a few questions (see post above for IP addresses)
The external subnet ID would be 129.10.94.0?
Internal IP (web server's) would be 192.168.1.101?
Destination would be any? Or would it be 129.10.94.6?Thanks!
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This is the firewall rule on the WAN interface. If not mentioned … leave default.
Source: Any
Source port: Any
Destination: 192.168.1.101
Dest. Port: (80 .. 25 .. 443 ... and so on)On the 1:1 NAT
external subnet ID would be 129.10.94.6
Internal IP (web server's) would be 192.168.1.101 as a single host.Destination would be any? Or would it be 129.10.94.6?
Leave this blank/default.
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Even after resetting to factory default, I still can't make it work.
I determined that my company's MAC address filtering is to blame, anyway we have found a way around this.
Thanks!