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    Stuggling with PfSense configuration ESXi

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      You do not want a gateway on LAN interfaces - where would you point it in the first place?  If you put a gateway on the lan, pfsense thinks its a wan connection.  If you need to route networks in your lan, then you need to create specific routes to those and not put a gateway on the actual interface.

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        Erick00
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        Right. I don't have Gateway on my LAN and i have disabled RFC 1918. I can see that it win8 client is opening like google or bing but if i try to open wikipedia for example nothing happens and I get webpage not found.

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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          so you can ping out to the internet?  So you can ping 4.2.2.2 for example?  This is a level 3 public dns that I know answers ping

          C:>ping 4.2.2.2

          Pinging 4.2.2.2 with 32 bytes of data:       
          Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=52
          Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=52

          Sounds more like a dns issue related problem then if your having issues accessing specific sites.

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            Erick00
            last edited by

            Yes i can ping this fine, but i can't browse for example pfsense forum

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              deagle
              last edited by

              nslookup?

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                Well you have connectivity then its name resolution - what are you using for DNS?

                If you can resolve www.google.com - but not yahoo.com as example and www.google.com opens just fine then its a dns related problem not connectivity.

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                  Erick00
                  last edited by

                  yea yahoo is not working. (via browsing),

                  But when i ping yahoo it works, and nslookup yahoo works also:

                  PS C:\Users\Administrator> ping yahoo.com

                  Pinging yahoo.com [98.138.253.109] with 32 bytes of data:
                  Reply from 98.138.253.109: bytes=32 time=174ms TTL=50
                  Reply from 98.138.253.109: bytes=32 time=153ms TTL=50
                  Reply from 98.138.253.109: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=50
                  Reply from 98.138.253.109: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=50

                  Ping statistics for 98.138.253.109:
                      Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
                  Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
                      Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 174ms, Average = 162ms

                  This is odd, i don't have any issues browsing if i connect to sky hub. so there isn't anything on the box stopping.
                  Maybe some sort of routing issue?

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                    if it was a routing issue how could you ping ;)

                    if it resolves - did you change the rules on pfsense from the default any any?

                    Did you install any packages like squid or snort?  Is your browser using any sort of proxy setting? etc. etc..

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                      Erick00
                      last edited by

                      You are correct about the routing. it makes sense.

                      no i have'nt changed any rules. I did enable just now manual NAT.

                      I dont have a proxy, no snort or squid.

                      Its a basic new install. with changes/configurations that i mentioned above.

                      If its a DNS issue then whats stopping from browsing anything else than google?

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Sure your box has not been compromised and infect with some sort of redirect for searches and traffic?

                        Why would you have changed over to manual nat?  There is rarely a need to do this, and not suggested unless you fully understand what your doing ;)

                        If your install is pretty much default it should just work.  What I would suggest is do a sniff (packet capture) on pfsense - say the wan and lan at the same time via tcpdump watching the traffic.  do you see your dns queries and answers for sites that are not working?  Do you see the traffic come back after you do your http get to the site?

                        Could you have some issue with using ipv6 vs ipv4?  Are you using ipv6?

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