Just a quick update on this, over this last weekend, I finally implemented pfSense with the forwarding of DNS/DHCP to one of my Linux systems where I configured the DHCP with static IP assignments, and to my initial shock, I got everything right and everything is "just working".

Thanks for the information and pointers on how to get this configured.

Now to figure out how to get the hostnames I have configured in the DHCP static assignments to populate instead of the hostname that the devices are reporting...

Anyone that has insight to share about Bind DNS PTR record troubleshooting?

@rio236 said in Bind DNS server refused to transfer zone.:

ls example.net

Just to be sure ;
Is 'ls' here some command line command used by some kind of bind (named / rndc) command line interface ?
Never saw that before. I'm using bind a lot myself, although not the pfSense package.

But if want to 'pull' the entire zone, then yes, at least the IP of the device you are using should be set up as a slave or device that is authorised to load the entire zone.