Setting up pfSense for a vCenter Appliance (homelab setup)
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As a very novice user of pfSense I am hoping to get a vCenter 8 Appliance to run on-prem.
Pre-requirement is a FDQN + PTR record to be able to get this vCenter 8 appliance to run.
I will assume the DNS resolver should be a start (default running after starting up the pfSense)
Unfortunately I am totally lost as to how I should setup either the DNS Resolver or DNS Forwarder.WAN is getting its IP-address via DHCP.
The DHCP-range is currently set to 192.168.1.20 - 192.168.1.254I will assume a DHCP-reservation is the first step:
https://<name>.<some name>lan/services_dhcp.php where I get this setup under DHCP Static Mappings for this Interface.
(Note I have choosen <name device>.<some name>.lan as .local is mDNS unhandy?)- MAC Address (the one of the vCenter appliance after OVA on a hyperviser/bare metal device)
- IP-address: 192.168.1<2-19>
- Hostname: <name device>
- ARP Table Static Entry (checked)
Services DNS Resolver General Settings
https://<name>.<some name>.lan/services_unbound.php- DHCP Registration (checked)
- Static DHCP (checked)
Did I miss anything here?
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Odd..
I would have assumed this community to have written any sorts of reply.
But is seems otherwise. -
In the end after searching left and right I did get the PTR record needed setup within my pfsense appliance.
Turns out: unbound entry in the DNS resolver via some “Custom options” field.
server:
local-zone: "<some name>.lan." static
local-data: "<some name>.lan. IN A 192.168.1.2"
local-data: "<device name>.<some name>.lan. IN A 192.168.1.3"
local-data-ptr: "192.168.1.3 <device name>.<some name>.lan."