PfSense DNS Won't Resolve - failed to access /etc/resolv.conf
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I have been having some issue with DNS on my 2.1.5 Nano install. In General Setup I have added 3 dns servers, however under the dashboard in system information, dns servers field is blank and Pfsense can not resolve anything. I look at the system logs under resolver and these errors appeared (See Below) . I tried to edit this file and it says the file does not exist but if I go into the shell and look there is a file with that name however I cant open it in any text editor. Any idea guys?
Apr 27 14:13:32 dnsmasq[59378]: started, version 2.70 cachesize 10000 Apr 27 14:13:32 dnsmasq[59378]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack no-ipset auth DNSSEC Apr 27 14:13:32 dnsmasq[59378]: failed to access /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory Apr 27 14:13:32 dnsmasq[59378]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses ```  -
So I deleted the existing resolv.conf (It was empty) and created it again then added my nameservers and everything seems to be working except I have to edit it manually for some reason instead of it getting updated by the GUI. Also the DNS servers section in system information is still blank.
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Why don't you reinstall your obviously screwed box and restore the config?
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Yeah its got to be something like that. I had it installed with no issues last night and on the firebox there is some glitches that required re-installing to resolve. After a clean re-install this issue started. I'm going to leave it for now since I don't change dns very often, and after a reboot the correct dns server were listed in the system information so I just have to update that resolv.conf file manually and it seems to work.
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Well, you either have screwed permissions on the box, or screwed filesystem, or possibly both. There's no way I'd continue running a system with such unexplicable issues when it takes minutes to re-image and get a sane install.