DNS Resolver Host Override not working in Windows

johnpoz · May 1, 2019, 2:33 AM

named is BIND

shawn8888 · May 1, 2019, 2:46 AM

Thank you so much, johnpoz!

I manually stopped the service at Status/Services screen. And this is what I got:

c:\>nslookup www.facebook.com
Server:  pfSense.mydomain.com
Address:  192.168.100.2

Name:    www.facebook.com
Address:  192.168.100.201


c:\>nslookup 192.168.100.201
Server:  pfSense.mydomain.com
Address:  192.168.100.2

Name:    www.facebook.com
Address:  192.168.100.201

Still have questions though:

As the screenshot shows, BIND is NOT enabled. How did this service get started?
I haven't touched BIND for a long time. But I did restart pfsense for testing, which means the named service get auto started when reboot. How can I stop it?

johnpoz · May 1, 2019, 2:46 AM

No idea... Seems like you config is borked.. Export your config and look at the xml.. If not enable it shouldn't be starting - unless you manually did something like installed bind on your own vs packages, etc.

shawn8888 · May 1, 2019, 2:50 AM

@johnpoz said in DNS Resolver Host Override not working in Windows:

No idea... Seems like you config is borked.. Export your config and look at the xml.. If not enable it shouldn't be starting - unless you manually did something like installed bind on your own vs packages, etc.

I installed BIND from package. I guess I will have to uninstall it later.
Thank you again for your help! You are amazing!

johnpoz · May 1, 2019, 2:51 AM

Did you maybe click on the service and start it that way? I have the package installed because time need to play with it to help users.

It doesn't auto start itself..

Learned one thing for sure - check earlier what is actually run if other users have sim issue ;) Would of solved your problem like in step one vs just trusting that all you had running was unbound.

shawn8888 · May 1, 2019, 2:53 AM

@johnpoz
No I didn't start the service manually.
Very weird, isn't it? I would think only one service can be started on one port, 53. Maybe it's a bug of pfsense? LOL

One last question:
DNS forwarder, DNS resolver and BIND all do the same thing and only one should be enabled, correct?

Is DNS resolver the best in your opinion?

johnpoz · May 1, 2019, 3:00 AM

No its not a bug.. look at your bindings.. Your not bound to the same things.

Bind is the king of dns... But you do not need it on pfsense, unbound is fine... I have been managing dns for years and years.. Since back in the bind 4 days. I just use unbound... its all you need for a home setup.

its got pretty much any of the features you could possible need.. Now if wanted to run an authoritative ns, or needed slave ns then I would run bind.

KOM · May 1, 2019, 2:32 PM

@shawn8888 said in DNS Resolver Host Override not working in Windows:

I installed BIND from package.

This would have been a good nugget to know right from the start. At least it's working now.