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    Problem with internet access via pfsense router

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      mattmurdock78
      last edited by

      Hello everyone,

      I just installed pfsense 2.x on a esxi5.0

      The goal is to manager with several vm ip failovers (router, NAT and DHCP)

      Here is my IP configuration (ip are false but this is for example ^^^)

      ESXi public IP: 50.50.50.50
      IP gateway ESXi: 62.62.62.1
      IP FAILOVER: 212212212212
      MAC IP failover: 00: 56: 21: 52: 52: 52:

      I also created a vswitch for LAN on esxi

      I configured the WAN & LAN card online control pfsense
      And creates the static route in order to have internet access from client virtual machines

      route add 62.62.62.1/32 -link -iface em0

      route add default 62.62.62.1

      from my virtual machine seven (which is recovering well a pfsense router's DHCP ip), I can ping the outside (dns google, yahoo.fr etc etc) with no problem.

      With a ping -a google.fr no problem either

      However when I open a browser, nothing appears

      Must specify a DNS on pfsense to get out?

      Best regards

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        muswellhillbilly
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        Well, you must specify DNS on your clients to get out [onto the internet]. Is your firewall acting as your DHCP server and if so does it have your DNS servers specified in the scope parameters? If you can run a command prompt from one of your clients and type the following: "nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8" and you get an answer in return, then DNS - or lack of it - is probably the problem.

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          mattmurdock78
          last edited by

          Hi,

          my customer vm (windows seven), the command: nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8
            answer me:

          non-authoritative answer

          Name: www.google.com
          Addresses: 2a00:1450:4007:806::1011
          216.58.211.100

          Best regards

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            muswellhillbilly
            last edited by

            Ok, so what happens if you just type 'nslookup www.google.com', leaving out the '8.8.8.8'? Do you still get a reply? If not, then the problem is that your client doesn't have a valid DNS server defined in it's network config. If you do get a positive reply, then the issue is probably with the browser you're using - aka: it will have a proxy server set in the browser config which doesn't exist, or something like that.

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