DNS not resolving
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Hi Guys.
Hope you can help me.
I have a windows server setup with DHCP and DNS. I am using pfsense as firewall.
I can;t resolve any IP on the network or on pfsense.
I can ping 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. but cant resolve any namesI have installed 2.1.5-RELEASE
Please any help will be great
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Ok, so if you can ping external addresses from inside your firewall then the rules are probably correct. What about your DNS forwarders on your Windows machine? You say that you've 'set up' DNS on your windows server - do you mean you've configured it to be a DNS server or that you've just set it up as a DNS client? And are you trying to do the DNS resolution from your server or from an internal (Windows?) client?
Have you tried resolving names directly from a command prompt on your Windows server ('nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8'), and if so do you get a response back? Does your ISP have any filters in place which would prevent you from querying anything other than their own DNS servers? A way to check this might be to run an SSH session to your firewall from your LAN and run a DNS query from there - again, an nslookup or dig command - to see if the firewall itself can resolve names?
Though you don't say it explicity you're not running a captive portal on your pfSense system?
Lots of questions, but then you haven't given much information to start with I'm afraid.
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"I can;t resolve any IP on the network or on pfsense"
How would 8.8.8.8 know about your IPs? if your using windows for dns, why would pfsense know about your network?
Need more info.
What are you clients using for dns? What are you trying to resolve?
