DNS Firewall Rules not working?
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Hi all, new to pfSense and setting it up for the first time for my home network. Really love it so far and have it connected to my existing gateway router while I complete the set up.
The problem: I have an end point connected to pfSense. I've created two recommended firewall rules (rows 3 & 4) to block DNS requests to outside servers (see image).
But when the rules are activated it blocks all DNS requests. I have flipped the two rules and tried both ways - Block rule above and Block rule below, same result. When I turn the Block/Reject rule off it works, when I turn it on all DNS requests are blocked.
DNS seems to routing correctly:
I'm probably missing something very simple here so please be gentle :-) I've been staring at it for too long I think.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.Here is an additional screen of my Resolver setup:
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@OldSkool dns is primarily udp, so you have to also allow it
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@netblues Thanks. Like I said looking at it too long and didn’t even see that I had missed UDP on the allow rule. Staring me in the face. Thanks again.