LAN Gateway Not Forwarding DNS
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Hi All, I'm new to pfsense, I was using an ASUS RT87U as my GW/FW/Router/DHCP etc, and WAN interface kept dropping to 10Mb Full Duplex. So I used an old PC for pfsense and it's now stable and fast so I'm very happy.
With my old ASUS Router clients would use the LAN gateway address 192.168.1.1 for DNS but some reason I cannot get that to work with pfsense. The configuration is pretty much stock, I had to add my ISP and Google DNS servers to DHCP so clients use that as their DNS.
Just wondering if anyone here can help, is there anyway I can get the LAN gateway to forward DNS or is the way I set it up now better?
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@nic82m
By default there is the DNS Resolver active on pfSense and it is listening on the LAN interface and the DHCP provides the LAN IP to the clients for DNS resolution. So it should work out of the box.However, if you have restricted the access by deleting or modifying the allow-any rule on LAN, you have to add a rule to allow DNS access to the LAN IP.
If this is not the case, check if the unbound service is running and check the DNS Resolver logs for hints or provide your resolver settings.