DNS Settings

[jpmtg]

I'm unsure of what name servers to have listed in my setup. I have DNS installed on two windows servers. Should I have these listed in pfsense? Should the domain be my actual windows domain? Here is the current resolv.conf

[2.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root(1): cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain localdomain
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 69.89.74.4
nameserver 69.89.70.4

I ask this because I cannot access packages from the GUI. Here is the error I receive:
Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com. Please verify DNS and interface configuration, and that pfSense has functional Internet connectivity.

When I try to traceroute to pfsense I get the following:
[2.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root(11): traceroute pfsense.com
traceroute: unknown host pfsense.com

Thank you for assisting me.

[Metu69salemi]

nameserver 69.89.74.4 isn't answering but another one is.
Do you have dns servers running on windwos servers?

[jpmtg]

@Metu69salemi:

nameserver 69.89.74.4 isn't answering but another one is.
Do you have dns servers running on windwos servers?

I do. I have two running

[Metu69salemi]

do you have set forwarders or root hints working on those?
if so you could try if those work better.
try with windows

cmd
nslookup
lserver "ip-address of your windows dns server"
8.8.8.8 <- there should come google-public-dns-a.google.com
www.google.com <- there should come few ip-addresses and url's

if those work you could change the dns to internal.

but i'm using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 by pfsense and dhcp is sharing internal dns(windows DC)

[ptt]

Check this:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41073.msg212176.html#msg212176

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,40442.0.html

Maybe you are in the same situation / scenario

[jpmtg]

@ptt:

Check this:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41073.msg212176.html#msg212176

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,40442.0.html

Maybe you are in the same situation / scenario

I do not fall into this scenario.

[jpmtg]

@Metu69salemi:

do you have set forwarders or root hints working on those?
if so you could try if those work better.
try with windows

cmd
nslookup
lserver "ip-address of your windows dns server"
8.8.8.8 <- there should come google-public-dns-a.google.com
www.google.com <- there should come few ip-addresses and url's

if those work you could change the dns to internal.

but i'm using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 by pfsense and dhcp is sharing internal dns(windows DC)

X:>nslookup
Default Server:  server1.domain.local
Address:  10.0.1.100

8.8.8.8
Server:  server1.domain.local
Address:  10.0.1.100

Name:    google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

www.google.com
Server:  server1.domain.local
Address:  10.0.1.100

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.l.google.com
Addresses:  74.125.65.106
          74.125.65.104
          74.125.65.105
          74.125.65.147
          74.125.65.99
          74.125.65.103
Aliases:  www.google.com

[Metu69salemi]

then you can use internal dns servers on pfsense or you could use 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

[jpmtg]

@Metu69salemi:

then you can use internal dns servers on pfsense or you could use 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

So my ISP name servers just plain suck i assume?

[Metu69salemi]

that is possible, but problem could reside almost everywhere