@bmeeks said in Why do I have to 'Track Interface' on LAN to WAN for IPv6 to work?:
The correct way to handle this is to use a separate sub-domain for your internal AD setup. Something like mydomain.com for the public IP domain name and internal.mydomain.com for the Windows AD network in RFC1918 space. That can work. A quick Google search will lead you to a Microsoft best practices and how-to article on this configuration. I highly recommend you restructure you AD configuration to match what is described at this older Microsoft link here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx. And here is a slightly newer document showing the same thing: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc772970(v=ws.10).
Thanks for the links - one of them I had looked already (as a Google search pointed to it). My public domain name has a - {dash} in it, and apparently my old ass NAS does not like that. I have tried and tried to get it to recognize the domain-name that I first setup as ad.{mypublicdomain} - even a chat session with them for over an hour (nothing worked - they plan no updates to it. It also only does CIFSv1/SMBv1 - FTP (no sFTP) and NFS (but only to Linux boxes) - and some form of iSCSI. I have over 6TB of files and stuff on there, and they "SEAGATE" is not even willing to 'help' me with another NAS to replace it. One of my IT buddies said I should use {mypublicdomain}.loc for my AD/DS...but still going to resolve the - {dash} in there unless I remove it completely. I have considered creating (renaming my public-facing-domain) as only HomeAssistant uses it (well their app on my phone and the ALEXA and GOOGLE links do too).
My older post you referenced was assuming the network was IPv4 only with no IPv6 in use. You want to use IPv6, but your ISP is not guaranteeing you a static assignment (they use prefix delegation which means the IPv6 space might change unexpectedly). That's going to be an issue unless you use both ULA and GUA IPv6 addresses. My post also assumed that your Active Directory domain was never going to be accessed from outside. Sounds like that is not what you intend as you mentioned somewhere up above about using some type of home automation with LDAP authentication I believe (unless I'm confusing this thread with another one).
Pretty much what I am going to. Every guide that I have read says not to DISABLE the IPv6 on a DC. I am going to leave it at its default settings and let pfSense take care of it. Same for DHCPv4 - going to only do DNS on AD/DS and I am guessing that pfSense is RESOLVER with the FORWARDING option turned on. I would also need a Domain Override setup to point to AD/DS name and IPv4 address as well. Still trying to grasp the REV LOOKUP (setup in pfSense) thing and the HOST OVERRIDE too.
The LDAP stuff that I want to do is not really for Home Automation, per se. I do have HomeAssisitant - what I want to do is sign-ins to the various parts with LDAP credentials so that I do not have to keep up with (currently 22) separate login accounts. All of that stuff is 'inside' my pfSense Firewall - only Alexa and Google can access from outside and their app. I got that working, and hoping that I do not have to go through that again. WHEW!!!