PfSense mantains DNS Record for Interface IP

clippy

Hi Everyone

I hope you won't be mad at me that my first post is a try to get some support ;)

I've got the following problem:

I have a pfSense Box with multiple LAN-Interfaces, each having a static IPv4 Address to serve as a gateway. Also, the DNS Resolver is active.

The box is called gw.foo.bar, and somehow it mantains an A-Record for that with the IP of one of the Interfaces. But I don't see the option to either turn this off or how to choose, from which Interface pfSense should choose the IP as the A-Record's Value.

Maybe someone knows about this? Any help would be appreciated.

/clippy

johnpoz

so you have lan, opt1, optX, etc..

and when you query for gw.foo.bar what do you get back? the lan ip or opt1, optx?

So what I have done is create new records in the overrides for the different interfaces.. So for example my dmz interface is pfsense.dmz.local.lan, and so on - see attached.

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clippy

Hi, thankx for the hint, that's how i initially wanted to work around this.

I have the following interfaces:

wan - …
adminport - 192.168.16.1
lan - 172.16.1.1
and some interfaces for VLANs

pfsense has the hostname gw.foo.bar (well, not really, but I have to do some censorship because the setup is in my company ^^')

In the DNS Resolver I have a Host override:

gw.foo.bar - 172.16.1.1

And when resolve gw.foo.bar from pfsense or from a client I get the two IPs from the DNS record and from the interface.

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johnpoz

well yeah.. you need to create a subdomain like I did..

so gw.sub.foo.bar, gw.othersub.foo.bar, etc.. for your other interfaces.

clippy

Hey thanks very much for that solution.

But how do I tell pfSense which Interface-IP to use as its own Hostname A-Record? Just wondering what pfSense's logic is to determine which IP to use.

In my Home-Setup I have no problems with that, but I guess that's due to the fact I only have one LAN IP there…

Because it's a requirement that for the DNS-Lookup on gw.foo.bar we get 172.16.1.1...

Regards and thx again
/clippy