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How do I change which interface gateway pfsense resolves to?

I've recently extended my network from one flat LAN to a couple interfaces using additional physical ports on my router and VLANs. I've kept the old interface up while I'm migrating and for testing ...
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pfSense host DNS resolver not working in guest VM (Ubuntu or NixOS)

I was recommended to move this to superuser from servervault, hopefully it's appropriate for here. I'm a hobbyist / tinkerer using bhyve (in pfSense running on a physical machine) to start up a Linux ...
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Configure pfSense from LAN to WAN to LAN

I have a simple website running accessible from internet using port forwarding for 80 and 443. Now I noticed that I cannot access this website myself. The website is default only available for people ...
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PfSense Unbound deny requests from another Lan

I have PfSense Home server, with two interfaces, LAN and Wifi with Captive Portal. DNS Resolver works perfectly for both, I forced redirection dns trafic at WAN Public DNS to the Firewall itself. And ...
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Unifi guest hotspot: "Redirect using Hostname" but no DNS?

I have a Unifi UAP-AC-LR access point and wanted to setup the guest portal for friends. It sort-of-worked on my phone, but didn't work on my laptop. I think it had to do with the self-signed cert/...
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pfSense DNS Resolver does not resolve local hostnames from DHCP static mappings

I'm on pfSense Community Edition 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 I assigned some static DHCP mappings on one of my LAN interfaces If I try to reach any one of those static mapped hosts by its Hostname (or by Client ...
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Upstream DNS resolver not logging domain lookups

A pfsense router running 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) software was originally configured to force the local network to only use OpenDNS. In this configuration, OpenDNS logged all resolved domains, and it ...
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Using BIND With Different Nameservers for Different Devices

I am running pfSense with BIND installed. On that machine, for a subnet of devices, I want the requests to go to OpenDNS and add my own records that would take precedence over OpenDNS. For the rest of ...
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PfSense and redirecting DNS requests

I set DNS Resolver as my DNS service in my pfsense v. 2.4.5, set also pfsense local IP address (127.0.1.1, actually 192.168.5.1) as my only dns server, letting Resolver to send dns request to the Dns ...
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OpenVPN drops connection about once a day, logs indicate DNS failure

I have an old version of pfSense (2.3.2) running an OpenVPN client to a commercial server. Over the past few years, the OpenVPN connection has been dropping more frequently, and now it's about once ...
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PfSense: redirection to authentication / login page from HTTPS links for unauthentified users

I've installed and configured pfsense 2.2.4 it works well and redirects unauthenticated users to the login page, as long as they use http; but when I type an https link the redirection doesnt work. ...
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pfSense inaccessible from LAN

My pfSense ( pfSense version 2.3.4, FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p19) homemade router from older PC was working just fine for few months but it suddenly stopped working and is inaccessible from any LAN ...
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How do I get Pfsense to automatically assign fqdn for each host in my local network

Is there a solution on PfSense that would assign a fully qualified domain name to a host automatically? I want the new computers that join my network to get assigned a new FQDN automatically, ...
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"Redirect" all traffic to local machine using pfSense based on host?

I have been trying to configure my pfSense router to allow me to connect remotely to my development VM without having to run a remote desktop connection to my office computer. Keep in mind, I am a ...
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pfSense port forward for http(s) redirects to private internal ip address when coming from WAN

I have a web server which I want to port forward HTTP(S) through my firewall to be accessed externally. I have a dynamic dns service set up which is functioning great and always shows my domain has ...
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