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    Upgrade - DNS (Bind and /or Resolver or Forwarder)

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      MnM
      last edited by

      Hi,

      Perhaps a simple question.
      On v2.2 with BIND I have to change DNS to resolver/forwarder before attempting an upgrade.

      If I stayed with BIND the upgrade will complete but no packages will be re-installed after the upgrade as the system was configured to use bind but bind was one of the packages to be re-installed (so it was a non functioning package immediate after the upgrade). I had then to manually change DNS to forwarder/resolver and reinstall packages manually.
      So the flow in the upgrade was:

      System Upgrade >> packages download >> packages re-install >> upgraded  pfsense

      Is the upgrade workflow the same in 2.3.3? Or it has now changed to:

      Download System Upgrade >> Download packages >> install upgrade >> install packages >> upgrading pfsense - which means I can upgrade without changing BIND to forwarder/resolver before upgrade

      Cheers

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        kpa
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        I would still revert to the built-in resolver/forwarder just to be safe. The update/upgrade isn't terribly smart about handling situations where the system's DNS resolution depends on a package like BIND that is being updated as part of the update/upgrade.

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