[pfSense] DNS Rebind

Jason T. Slack-Moehrle slackmoehrle at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 19:26:06 EST 2012


am I blind in seeing where I would create DNS entries on the pfSense box to run it as a DNS Server?


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Jason T. Slack-Moehrle


On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:

> One of the sites is 6colors.net (http://6colors.net), another one would be jasonandannette.us (http://jasonandannette.us)
> 
> My wife says they work from her job.
> 
> Can you explain to me how one does split-DNS? 
> 
> -- 
> Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle <slackmoehrle at gmail.com (mailto:slackmoehrle at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > When I plug my laptop into the LAN and try and hit one of the websites I host I get forwarded the pfsense admin URL but get an error that states: 
> > > 
> > > Potential DNS Rebind attack detected, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_rebinding
> > > Try accessing the router by IP address instead of by hostname.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This happens to a few of the sites, but it doesn't seem to happen to all of them that are hosted on that box.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can anyone help me to understand what is happening and how to fix it?
> > 
> > When you are somewhere else, do the websites work properly?
> > 
> > Usually pfSense does not support accessing a public IP that is on the pfSense WAN. In order for that to work you need to have NAT-reflection enabled.
> > We have never been able to get NAT reflection working on our network, so we just set up split-DNS (that you have different DNS for those sites your LAN), so the clients on the LAN do not know about the 1-1 NAT on the pfSense.
> > 
> > - Y 
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