Domain/Hostname from within LAN
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I'm a new pfSense user, recently came this direction from DD-WRT which I know very well and at least understand pfSense, but I'm definitely still learning! I have been able to successfully configure pfSense, use NAT and Rules to forward ports to get my desired services up and running, but I have an issue that's more annoying than anything, and I'm sure its probably very simple to fix, just not sure what I need to do…
If connecting from the outside, I can use my domain www.whateverdomain.com and I can connect to whatever I need just fine whether its FTP, my web server, or whatever as it should. However, I am not able to use that same name from inside the LAN. For example say I have a website running at that domain name, I can access it from the outside, but I can't get to it from within the LAN. I can however punch in the IP address of the machine the web server is running on and get to it just fine. What am I missing to make that work?
I'm sure this is probably very obvious or a simple oversight on my part. Remember I'm still new to this, so go easy on me! ;D
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http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks%3F
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http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks%3F
Excellent! Yeah I knew it was probably something simple that I wasn't seeing. I was reading docs and searching the forums for hours and not seeing what I needed. I will give this a try and post back results. Thanks so much for the speedy response!