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      donjcrbaustin
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      I have a pfSense firewall that I use as a DHCP server and DNS server. Additionally, I have a local domain server. I have 3 WAN networks configured on pfSense in load balancing mode, following the instructions in the manual. However, I'm facing an issue where the computers on my network cannot join the domain on my server. It was working fine before I implemented the load balancing. What configuration should I make?

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @donjcrbaustin
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        @donjcrbaustin The load balancing is probably not relevant but pfSense has to ask Windows for the AD domain info. See my response here:

        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/181593/migrate-lan-dns-to-pfsense/2

        Notably Windows does not query DNS servers in order, it uses the "last known good" method.

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