<![CDATA[debugging aliases]]>for some reason my alias has stopped working. It just points to fqdn with ddns service.
i dont recall making any changes since i was busy yesterday. Is there a way i can check pfsense is resolving the fqdn and the firewall entry is being updated with the ip?

I did try a dns lookup on the pfsense box, it points to my internet ip. When I manually put in the ip, i can connect to my vpn otherwise it times out

I am using 2.8.1 community edition

bloody murphy

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/200419/debugging-aliasesRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 05:25:14 GMTFri, 27 Mar 2026 10:41:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to debugging aliases on Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:01:33 GMT]]>@johnpoz thanks. I should of google it first. i found the answer on an old thread. For the benefit of somonelse and possibly me, i will say look in the table of diagnostics and there will be an entry named after your alias.

I only had two fqdn entries . i dont know what happened. it just started working after i deleted it then recreated it. Maybe it got corrupted somehow. i didnt know about diagnostics then so I didnt have a look

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1240330https://forum.netgate.com/post/1240330Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:01:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to debugging aliases on Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:32:38 GMT]]>@ageis Diagnostics >Tables.

There are some specific bugs with FQDN resolution. Are you using that mixed with other things in the alias? See thread https://forum.netgate.com/post/1231420 for instance.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1240324https://forum.netgate.com/post/1240324Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:32:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to debugging aliases on Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:31:43 GMT]]>@ageis just look in the table of the alias under diagnostics.

When you do a dig or nslookup using say 8.8.8.8 does your fqdn resolve to the IP you expect?

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