[SOLVED] Accessing Web GUI from LAN without IP address
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If you are using windows make sure the network is private
The system I am using to access the Web GUI is an Ubuntu VM on a Windows host. The Windows host network is not explicitly private (on a corporate domain currently). But I've disabled DHCP and my Ubuntu VM has a static IP.
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Cant you try from a other machine/laptop to rule out the dns
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Try 192.168.78.1 as dns on ubuntu.
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Cant you try from a other machine/laptop to rule out the dns
I will try this out shortly and reply back.
Try 192.168.78.1 as dns on ubuntu.
Tried this, and added the hostname/IP of the pfSense box back to the hostname overrides, but no luck.
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Trying the new machine See that its on private network and do http://cuyahoga
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Have you tried pfSense webui Diagnostics->DNS Lookup cuyahoga.localdomain
What is the output of dig @192.168.78.1 cuyahoga.localdomain from ubuntu?
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Trying the new machine See that its on private network and do http://cuyahoga
Alright so I separated my machine from the corporate domain, and enabled DHCP on pfSense's LAN. From Windows 7, I have obtain IP and DNS automatically, and http://cuyahoga still does not work. I don't have to add the pfSense box's information to the host override, do I?
Note that I can access the GUI via IP address.
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Have you tried pfSense webui Diagnostics->DNS Lookup cuyahoga.localdomain
What is the output of dig @192.168.78.1 cuyahoga.localdomain from ubuntu?
Alright I ran the dns lookup and got the results in the attached image. I then clicked add alias, and that seems to have done the trick, I can access via http://cuyahoga.localdomain and http://cuyahoga.
I than ran the dig command and got the attached results.
So this obviously solved the problem, but what exactly is happening when I add the alias? Also, can I view aliases in another part of the webui?
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Glad you got it working.
Firewall->Aliases is not hard to find.
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