Access Home Server at Home
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I have a home server I use for home automation. I set some port forwards and rules in pfSense so I could access the home automation system when I'm away from home utilizing noip. Works great. Problem is it doesn't work when I'm home and the iPhone is connected to wifi. Soon as I turn wifi off I can access the home automation server while I'm home. Used to work fine. The only thing I did different was to start using my new pfSense firewall. Do I need some sort of wifi rule or something?
Setup is pretty simple. pfSense has 1 WAN port and 4 Lan ports. The Lan ports are all bridged and on the same subnet. Two wifi hot spots are in the house connected to the network via cat5e cable. Again, everything is on the same subnet. Any ideas appreciated Thx!
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are you accessing it via a phone remotely?
It only works if you access it from outside your home network? -
@The-Party-of-Hell-No Yes accessing it via my iPhone outside of home network works.. Inside home network using iPhone connected to wifi does not work. Inside home network using iPhone not connected to wifi does work.
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Thats expected.
What you are trying to do is called hairpin nat.
(accessing external IP from inside network)I would recommend doing it with split dns.
In dns resolver create a host override for your no-ip host address, pointing to the internal ip of homeserver
Voila.
When on wifi, all devices will connect with internal local ip.Works all the time.
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@netblues Thanks! Let me play around and see if I can get that to work.
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That was too easy! And it worked! thanks.
