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    • sysbitnetS
      sysbitnet
      last edited by

      @stephenw10
      I agree with you.

      How can testing what is the problem only leave this service, for example, i used to test proxmox.

      Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

      Name: PM_8006
      Mode: active
      Name: pm
      Forward to: Address+Port
      Address: 192.168.100.3
      Port: 8006
      Encrypt(SSL): yes
      SSL checks: yes
      And in the Health check method set: basic

      How i configure On the Frontend part.

      Services / HAProxy / Frontend
      Name: PM_Front
      External address
      Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
      Port: 8006
      SSL Offloading: yes

      In Access Control lists inside the same
      Name: pm
      Expression: Host matches
      CS: empty
      Note: empty
      Value: pm.domain.com

      In part Actions inside the same

      Action Use Backend the name that i set on PM_8006
      Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists pm

      And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

      The same certificate and added inside proxmox, because is letsencrypt wildcard certificate

      And when i try to visit https://pm.domain.com:8006/ the result is like this below message.

      503 Service Unavailable
      No server is available to handle this request.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        What do you logged?

        Do you see states created on port 8006? For both front and back end?

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        • sysbitnetS
          sysbitnet @stephenw10
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          • sysbitnetS
            sysbitnet
            last edited by

            @stephenw10

            I do the same as how i explained in my last post.

            I tried many other services that request custom ports and got the same.

            503 Service Unavailable
            No server is available to handle this request.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              So do you see states created?

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              • sysbitnetS
                sysbitnet
                last edited by

                Yes, I set.

                When i do this just for testing
                Firewall-NAT-Port-Forward-pm.jpg
                How can i see if i correctly configured and tried to access it, this is working perfectly.

                IP_ProxMox is set localhost IP set inside Firewall / Aliases / IP

                When i disable this Port Forward and now testing to login again like https://pm.domain.com:8006 i get this result

                503 Service Unavailable
                No server is available to handle this request.

                If i have a set like this inside HAProxy

                @sysbitnet said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

                Name: PM_8006
                Mode: active
                Name: pm
                Forward to: Address+Port
                Address: 192.168.100.3
                Port: 8006
                Encrypt(SSL): yes
                SSL checks: yes
                And in the Health check method set: basic

                How i configure On the Frontend part.

                Services / HAProxy / Frontend
                Name: PM_Front
                External address
                Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
                Port: 8006
                SSL Offloading: yes

                In Access Control lists inside the same
                Name: pm
                Expression: Host matches
                CS: empty
                Note: empty
                Value: pm.domain.com

                In part Actions inside the same

                Action Use Backend the name that i set on PM_8006
                Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists pm

                And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

                The same certificate and added inside proxmox, because is letsencrypt wildcard certificate

                And when i try to visit https://pm.domain.com:8006/ the result is like this below message.

                503 Service Unavailable
                No server is available to handle this request.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  But do you see states on port 8006 in Diag > States?

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                  • sysbitnetS
                    sysbitnet @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                    But do you see states on port 8006 in Diag > States?

                    If you mean on Diagnostics / States / States yes this is what i get as a result.

                    Diagnostics-States-States.jpg

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Ok. So what is the LAB interface? What are the IPs there?

                      I expect to see a port 8006 state on WAN whilst you're testing.

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                      • sysbitnetS
                        sysbitnet @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                        Ok. So what is the LAB interface? What are the IPs there?

                        I expect to see a port 8006 state on WAN whilst you're testing.

                        LAB interface is a local private network, 192.168.100.0./24

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Ok so I assume 192.168.100.254 is the LAN interface address.

                          That state could be the backend on-line check.

                          If you are trying to connect to it you should also see states on the WAN.

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                          • sysbitnetS
                            sysbitnet
                            last edited by

                            I just tested with mobile internet and have this result
                            Diagnostics-States-States-2.jpg

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                            • sysbitnetS
                              sysbitnet @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                              Ok so I assume 192.168.100.254 is the LAN interface address.

                              That state could be the backend on-line check.

                              If you are trying to connect to it you should also see states on the WAN.

                              I get this result with a local private network because i use the same IP and for that reason, i get a local IP

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Ok so you do see a state open on the WAN. Do you also see a new state open on LAB when that happens? That's what you would expect to see if HAProxy is opening the backend.

                                If it isn't then it's probably not trying because it thinks the backend is down.

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                                • sysbitnetS
                                  sysbitnet @stephenw10
                                  last edited by sysbitnet

                                  @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                                  Ok so you do see a state open on the WAN. Do you also see a new state open on LAB when that happens? That's what you would expect to see if HAProxy is opening the backend.

                                  If it isn't then it's probably not trying because it thinks the backend is down.

                                  This is how it configures Backend and Frontend
                                  @sysbitnet said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                                  @stephenw10
                                  I agree with you.

                                  How can testing what is the problem only leave this service, for example, i used to test proxmox.

                                  Inside Services / HAProxy / Backend

                                  Name: PM_8006
                                  Mode: active
                                  Name: pm
                                  Forward to: Address+Port
                                  Address: 192.168.100.3
                                  Port: 8006
                                  Encrypt(SSL): yes
                                  SSL checks: yes
                                  And in the Health check method set: basic

                                  How i configure On the Frontend part.

                                  Services / HAProxy / Frontend
                                  Name: PM_Front
                                  External address
                                  Listen address: WAN address (IPv4)
                                  Port: 8006
                                  SSL Offloading: yes

                                  In Access Control lists inside the same
                                  Name: pm
                                  Expression: Host matches
                                  CS: empty
                                  Note: empty
                                  Value: pm.domain.com

                                  In part Actions inside the same

                                  Action Use Backend the name that i set on PM_8006
                                  Condition acl names: the same name that i set in Access Control lists pm

                                  And inside the same Additional certificates select SSL Offloading what i on System / Certificates / Certificates

                                  The same certificate and added inside proxmox, because is letsencrypt wildcard certificate

                                  And when i try to visit https://pm.domain.com:8006/ the result is like this below message.

                                  503 Service Unavailable
                                  No server is available to handle this request.

                                  The web interface can be reached via https://youripaddress:8006 or https://pm.domain.com:8006
                                  proxmox-login.jpg

                                  When i open Stats FS i see Green for this profile
                                  Stats-FS.jpg

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Oh this is simply the Proxmox webgui. That should work Did you add the Proxmox CA cert to pfSense so it will allow connections?

                                    You should change the backend health-check to https. When that shows as available then proxied requests should do also.

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                                    • sysbitnetS
                                      sysbitnet @stephenw10
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10 said in Can pfsense detect requests and routing to set hostname:

                                      Oh this is simply the Proxmox webgui. That should work Did you add the Proxmox CA cert to pfSense so it will allow connections?

                                      You should change the backend health check to https. When that shows as available then proxied requests should do also.

                                      I have a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate, which i add inside ProxMox

                                      Or you mean to add this from ProxMox to pfSenese proxmox-cert.jpg

                                      When i change on Services / HAProxy / Backend
                                      In the Health check method set: from Basic to HTTP when i have status Down

                                      For now, only add my Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate on Services / HAProxy / Frontend

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm just speculating that HAProxy cannot open a connection to Proxmox because it refuses the cert. However it should be OK if Proxmox is using a LE cert.

                                        Try to open it from pfSense directly. It fails for me here because I'm using the self signed cert in Proxmox:

                                        [24.03-RELEASE][root@m270-2.stevew.lan]/root: curl https://172.21.16.250:8006
                                        curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
                                        More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html
                                        
                                        curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
                                        establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
                                        how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.
                                        
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                                        • sysbitnetS
                                          sysbitnet
                                          last edited by

                                          I back with this case, when i use like this
                                          Firewall-NAT-Port-Forward-pm.jpg

                                          Is not meather did i enter Public IP https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8006 or https://pm.domain.com:8006

                                          I get similar results on the ProxMox login screen
                                          proxmox-login.jpg

                                          In this case, the only SSL that it uses is the SSL that is installed inside ProxMox.

                                          When i disable rule inside Firewall / NAT / Port Forward

                                          And back inside HAProxy where in Frontend
                                          PM_Front rule

                                          Just inside SSL Offloading => Certificate use, for example, pfSense certificate and open in the same way first what i get is

                                          Your connection is not private
                                          Attackers might be trying to steal your information from pm.domain.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more
                                          NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

                                          And when i agree with that and want to continue again like the final point get

                                          503 Service Unavailable
                                          No server is available to handle this request.

                                          And inside Diagnostics / States / States get this like result
                                          Diagnostics-States-States-2.jpg

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Did you try to open it with curl like I showed above?

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