What Am I Missing? Port Forwarding/Websites not working New to Networking.

Derelict

@itstheburns said in What Am I Missing? Port Forwarding/Websites not working New to Networking.:

mail.echoes.net:993 adamscable.com.

Those work fine from here.

What do you have DHCP configured to give to your clients? What are that windows client's active DNS servers?

What does nslookup mail.echoes.net output?

johnpoz

Yeah exactly

That resolves just fine

;mail.echoes.net.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.echoes.net.        3600    IN      A       72.28.1.14
mail.echoes.net.        3600    IN      A       72.28.1.13

And so does
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;adamscable.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
adamscable.com. 3600 IN A 72.28.3.145

If you can not resolve it, then you dicked with the settings or your ISP is dicking with your ability to resolve.. Out of the box pfsense resolves, ie talks down from roots to find the authoritative NS for the domain your asking about.

If your ISP messes with that, or your latency is too high then yeah you could have problems.

Port 993 is encrypted IMAP.. If you did did not change the default lan rules any any is allowed. And prob just a DNS problem.. Go to pfsense dns lookup does that resolve? Can you please post the output of this screen

itstheburns

Same for me.

It works just fine outside of my network with pfsense. It works just fine if I connect my old router.

I got it working. I added 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I kept glossing over this page for some reason and missed DNS Servers.

I don't know why they have their dns setup the way it is and I don't know why it works fine with my asus router but its working now. If theres a better or different way, I'm open to learning how to do it.

Derelict

Great. What about resolving on the CLIENT that is failing?

nslookup mail.echoes.net

itstheburns

Yeah its working. tracert as well to both mail.echoes.net, echoes.net and adamscable.com.

Derelict

OK then what about in the browser? What does it say exactly when you try to go to adamscable.com?

itstheburns

It loads the page as it should, on all devices

Derelict

So what's the problem?

itstheburns

No problem now, its all working as it should. I added google's dns servers to the dhcp server page.

@itstheburns said in What Am I Missing? Port Forwarding/Websites not working New to Networking.:

I got it working. I added 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I kept glossing over this page for some reason and missed DNS Servers.

I don't know why they have their dns setup the way it is and I don't know why it works fine with my asus router but its working now. If theres a better or different way, I'm open to learning how to do it.

Derelict

Without any idea what the non-working setup looked like it's really hard to say.

itstheburns

The original issue was that I could not get port forwarding to work with my camera NVRs (2 of them), some websites were slow or not loading and could not access my ISP's website and email.

I had port forwarding setup in the wrong order or something. I reinstalled pfsense and redid all of the port forwarding rules after I found a very detailed video that basically explained firewall aliases much better than the pfsense documentation. That made setting up my port forwarding so much easier and took only 5 mins Port forwarding is working as it should and lightning fast compared to before.

As for my ISPs website or email not working, I was not able to access those from within my network on any client, whether it be PC or mobile device. It all worked fine on my asus router before I started using pfsense so I was stumped. My ISP is probably doing some wonky stuff with resolving or whatever. By adding Google's DNS servers has fixed this issue. Nothing else I tried was able to fix it. I would only change one setting at a time, apply and retry. If that did not work, I would revert back and try a different setting.

In short, everything seems to be working on every client both within and outside my network.