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    [Solved] Weird DNS Issue

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    • M Offline
      MeCJay12
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      So I turned on auto DNS on the WAN port, DNS Forwarder off, and DNS Resolver on with host overrides for the two sites. Internet access and school sites act as if you entered their IP directly (connection not private and no access to services)

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        KOM
        last edited by

        Internet access and school sites act as if you entered their IP directly (connection not private and no access to services)

        I'm not sure I'm following you here.  Can you give an example of what you're seeing?

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          MeCJay12
          last edited by

          when I say it works I mean regular access (like just type in google.com). When I say it doesn't work I mean the login in pages are replaced with site not found. See attached. Google working. Canopy and catalyst not.

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            doktornotor Banned
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            I fail to see the relation of your screenshots with DNS.

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            • M Offline
              MeCJay12
              last edited by

              When I manually configure the school's DNS servers on my PC the sites work properly.

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                doktornotor Banned
                last edited by

                So what? Does that resolve to something different, or what? Point the entire uc.edu domain to your college servers via overrides.

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                • KOMK Offline
                  KOM
                  last edited by

                  My first guess would be that their pages are using resources on other servers that you do not have a host override for.

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                    doktornotor Banned
                    last edited by

                    Yeah as said I'd start with adding a domain override instead.

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                      MeCJay12
                      last edited by

                      Let me give you more background. I have an ASUS router that for the longest time could not access any school services (exactly as you see in the pictures above). If I used a VPN I could use the school's stuff but it was annoying. I figured out that if I removed google's DNS from its configuration that I could access all the school's services without needing the vpn. Now I am trying to do the same thing with this pfsense router. It won't let me access any of the school's services without me manually configuring the school's DNS servers on each of my clients.

                      What IP would I use to override? The school have many sub-domains and it doesn't make sense to sit here and override each of those.

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                      • KOMK Offline
                        KOM
                        last edited by

                        For domain overrides, you just specify the domain and the authoritative server for that domain.

                        Domain: uc.edu
                        IP address: LAN IP of school DNS server

                        Anything about uc.edu will be handled by their DNS.

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                          MeCJay12
                          last edited by

                          Alright. The override for the domain is setup and everything is working great. Thanks very much!

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