pfsense Lan Ping by name

wrthigpen

I installed pfsense on an older computer with two NIC's. I can access the Internet and have one port forwarding working correctly. I can ping all computers on the network by computer name except the pfsense computer. I can ping anything on the Internet by name. I do not think it is the firewall restricting this as I can put an entry in the hosts file and that will all me to ping the pfsense by computer name. Any suggestions would be appreciated. All computers on my network are running Windows 10.

johnpoz

Are you trying to ping if via fqdn, or just some hostname like pfsense? If that is working locally for your other windows 10 machines, they are prob using something other than normal dns to resolve. A netbios broadcast, etc.

To ping pfsense by name, it would need to be fully qualified pfsense.domain.tld - and you would need to be using pfsense for dns, or something that knows to go ask pfsense dns for the fqdn.

If you want to just use hostname, then your client would have to use search suffix to auto ad that domain name for you..

example

$ ping sg4860

Pinging sg4860.local.lan [192.168.9.253] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.9.253: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.9.253: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

See how I just ping the name of pfsense, and it comes back fully qualified.

wrthigpen

Thanks for the reply. It is possible I have something mis-configured on this system. That is the only issue I have, everything else seems to be working. Again, thanks and have a good day.