DNS on pfsense 101 ??
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I have used pfsense for a while now and recently got the latest iteration but in all this time I have just used it as a router and little more.
My problem is that networking etc. is a bit of a black hole in my knowledge so reading the guides etc is somewhat like reading a foreign language.
What I think I want is pfsense to be my local dns server which, if it is unable to resolve, refers to something like open dns.
Yes, I know this is something very basic but I feel a bit lost purely because of my lack of understanding. For example: should I point my machines at the local address of say 192.168.1.1 or at 127.0.0.1 referred to in the notes?
What I need is either some settings, but that just gets me going without me understanding, or somebody to help me understand what is happening when I enable forwarding etc.
Or perhaps links that I can use to further my understanding when I read the notes under each of these pfsense settings
Just a home environment but 11.79TB so far this month or typically 50M urls a day whilst helping on a project
For hardware I am using j1900 4c @2.0, 8GB ram, Intel dual NIC (i340 I think), X25E 40GB ssd.
Does anyone have a few spare moments to help this old guy try to get to grips ?
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Have you watched this video?
Comprehensive Guide to pfSense 2.3 Part 7: DNS Resolver and Benchmarking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3VXLIXGazM
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I was not even aware that there were any videos but I have to say that it was precisely the level of information I wanted
It confirmed that the setting changes I made to date were good and added good guidance of what I should be doing next
So, a big thank you from me for this link and source of enlightenment….. So much easier than trying to make sense of the 4-5? year old pfsense manual I have here. Things have moved on a lot since then