Query DNS from NON LAN interface?? Not reporting the domain name of the firewall

[Supermule]

Using nslookup from LAN will report the domainname of the firewall.

Doing it from DMZ or any other physical interface will report unknown.

Why??

[johnpoz]

So I have multiple segments lan, wlan, dmz, etc..  And doing a query reports just fine.

How exactly are you doing a query?

user@uc:~$ nslookup pfsense.local.lan
Server:        192.168.2.253
Address:        192.168.2.253#53

Name:  pfsense.local.lan
Address: 192.168.9.253

example this is query from my unifi controller box that is on 192.168.2.0/24 while my lan is on 192.168.9.253

Are you doing a query without domain and just letting suffix search work?  What OSes are you doing the queries from?  Do you not have dns listening on the pfsense interface in that segment?

[Supermule]

Just the nslookup

Nothing else.

@Supermule:

Using nslookup from LAN will report the domainname of the firewall.

Doing it from DMZ or any other physical interface will report unknown.

Why??

@johnpoz:

So I have multiple segments lan, wlan, dmz, etc..  And doing a query reports just fine.

How exactly are you doing a query?

user@uc:~$ nslookup pfsense.local.lan
Server:        192.168.2.253
Address:        192.168.2.253#53

Name:  pfsense.local.lan
Address: 192.168.9.253

example this is query from my unifi controller box that is on 192.168.2.0/24 while my lan is on 192.168.9.253

Are you doing a query without domain and just letting suffix search work?  What OSes are you doing the queries from?  Do you not have dns listening on the pfsense interface in that segment?

[johnpoz]

what does just nslookup mean?

I showed you just using nslookup..  So lets see example of when it works and when it doesn't work.  Because its the same database/files that records are pulled from - does not matter what interface you do the query too.  You sure your ones that are not working are doing query to pfsense, and not say for example google dns?

[Supermule]

2 interface pfsense with LAN and DMZ

LAN is 172.16.1.1 and DMZ is 10.255.1.1

It says unknown on DMZ to the nslookup command.

Both interfaces are using the interface IP adress as DNS since pfsense uses DNS resolver and manages DNS internally.

[johnpoz]

Now I understand what your talking about ;)  That is just because you have no ptr setup for that IP..

But that really is not a big issue.. What I do that adds ptr record is create over rides for the other interfaces.

So for example pfsense.local.lan is my normal lan 192.168.9.253 interface, then for the others say wlan segment I make pfsense.wlan.local.lan  so if I do a ptr on that

C:>dig -x 192.168.2.253

; <<>> DiG 9.10.2-P2 <<>> -x 192.168.2.253
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60562
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;253.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
253.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN    PTR    pfsense.wlan.local.lan.

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.9.253#53(192.168.9.253)
;; WHEN: Wed Jul 22 06:31:46 Central Daylight Time 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91

This way windows clients that do a ptr query for your dns will resolve.

[Supermule]

You need to walk me through that since DNS resolves fine on the servers but the hostname reported on DMZ shows unknown instead of firewall name.

The reverse DNS works fine from LAN but not from DMZ.

In unbound I cant determine where to put the reverse record.

[johnpoz]

You could create an reverse.. But its just easier to create another record for your other interfaces IPs.

So for example I have this

lan - pfsense.local.lan 192.168.9.253
wlan - pfsense.wlan.local.lan 192.168.2.253
dmz - pfsense.dmz.local.lan 192.168.3.253

See attached over rides screenshot

When you query ptr of 192.168.9.253 I get lan, when I query any of the others I that forward name - tells me for example which segment I am on.

C:>dig -x 192.168.9.253 +short
pfSense.local.lan.

C:>dig -x 192.168.2.253 +short
pfsense.wlan.local.lan.

C:>dig -x 192.168.3.253 +short
pfsense.dmz.local.lan.

C:>dig -x 192.168.4.253 +short
pfsense.wlanguest.local.lan.

C:>dig -x 192.168.5.253 +short
pfsense.ps3.local.lan.

Different IPs should really have different names..  You wouldn't want all of pfsense interface IPs to return just pfsense.whatever.tld would you?  Isn't it better to give back a name that tells you what interface it is.

But if you really just want a PTR for the other IPs pointing to the same name.. Just create one in the advanced section - see 2nd pic

local-data-ptr: "1.2.3.4 pfsense.local.lan"