<![CDATA[Aliases not updating]]>I have few aliases with FQDN hostnames configured with noip on PfSense 2.5.1

Initially when I setup those aliases and use them in firewall rules so as to allow acess to certain services , everything works fine as they should.

But as soon as public IP for that FQDN changes, the same is not updating in my PfSense and that ip loose access.. even if I wait for 300 seconds or 300000 seconds, alias never updates.

And yes I know I can use other methods to control access but I wanna do with aliases . It should update I guess..

Any idea about this situation? Help is deeply appreciated

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/163419/aliases-not-updatingRSS for NodeTue, 12 May 2026 15:17:45 GMTFri, 30 Apr 2021 15:57:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Wed, 12 May 2021 05:46:54 GMT]]>@steveits Hi, problem resolved. The test pfsense run in vmware player and windows 10 test vm has only Internet Explorer. After installing Firefox adding tehe FQDN Alias was no problem.

Thanks a lot, sincerely
Roman

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982598https://forum.netgate.com/post/982598Wed, 12 May 2021 05:46:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 14:54:24 GMT]]>@sporkrom I can create an alias for "www.google.at" in 2.5.1. Try deleting and typing it, in case there is a hidden character being pasted in.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982499https://forum.netgate.com/post/982499Tue, 11 May 2021 14:54:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 13:35:47 GMT]]>@viktor_g
Hi,
standard language, no changes.
Fresh installation of 2.5.1 x64.

Sincerely

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982487https://forum.netgate.com/post/982487Tue, 11 May 2021 13:35:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 13:07:05 GMT]]>@sporkrom said in Aliases not updating:

@viktor_g
Hi, fresh installation, WAN DHCP, LAN Standard IP Adress, no configuration changes.

System language changes?
How I can reproduce it step-by-step?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982479https://forum.netgate.com/post/982479Tue, 11 May 2021 13:07:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 12:26:33 GMT]]>@viktor_g
Hi, fresh installation, WAN DHCP, LAN Standard IP Adress, no configuration changes.

Sincerely
Roman

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982461https://forum.netgate.com/post/982461Tue, 11 May 2021 12:26:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 12:13:47 GMT]]>@sporkrom Screenshot from 2021-05-11 15-11-05.png

works fine for me on 2.5.1

Please provide more information about your configuration

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982456https://forum.netgate.com/post/982456Tue, 11 May 2021 12:13:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Tue, 11 May 2021 10:45:51 GMT]]>Hello,
I think the problem is, that 2.5.1 has a really heavy bug. You can' t create an FQDN Alias.
I tried in fresh installe 2.5.1.
bbdce4f5-dd87-44ba-83ad-349082fd9491-grafik.png

I didn't try an upgrade from 2.4.x to 2.5.1, but I thin k all FQDN Aliases will not work.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/982432https://forum.netgate.com/post/982432Tue, 11 May 2021 10:45:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Sat, 01 May 2021 04:37:53 GMT]]>@steveits I do not want to restart haproxy, but rather update the alias ip from diagnosics>table entries for that alias.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/980786https://forum.netgate.com/post/980786Sat, 01 May 2021 04:37:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Sat, 01 May 2021 03:47:43 GMT]]>@rupesh There is a Cron package if you can figure out how to restart it via command line.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/980785https://forum.netgate.com/post/980785Sat, 01 May 2021 03:47:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Sat, 01 May 2021 03:35:07 GMT]]>@steveits yes it updates at startup it seems, so is there any workaround for this so that it may update ip after some fixed time?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/980783https://forum.netgate.com/post/980783Sat, 01 May 2021 03:35:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:58:50 GMT]]>We don't use haproxy, however, I seem to recall reading somewhere that pfSense updates the hostname aliases every few minutes...don't recall if that is 10 or 15 or what. However I also seem to recall reading Suricata only reads aliases at startup, therefore, one must restart Suricata after updating aliases. I would guess that's probably the case with haproxy, that it reads the alias when haproxy is started.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/980749https://forum.netgate.com/post/980749Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:58:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Aliases not updating on Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:46:51 GMT]]>@rupesh ok here is what I found...I guess the issue is with haproxy. If I restart haproxy then the issue resolves.
Is anyone facing same problem?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/980707https://forum.netgate.com/post/980707Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:46:51 GMT