[pfSense] DNS resolution in aliases

[Seth Mos]

On 15-3-2012 13:50, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> On 2012-03-15 08:35, Jim Pingle wrote:
>>> Is it possible to evoke the daemon from the shell to fast prefill an
>>> alias list?
>>
>> Not sure why you'd want to do that, just add hostnames to an alias and
>> be done with it.
> 
> So I've been creating all my servers in aliases for nothing I guess? I'd
> just have to create the groups I want, then add the servers' DNS name I
> want inther and voila?

Not a good idea, unless all the records match up. If the system has
different addresses you would need to make very sure they are all in DNS.

If the DNS server fails that also means that your firewall rules will be
skipped and nothing works.

I use it for a few websites, but nothing I administer locally for
something which I know the IP address won't ever likely change.

Cheers,
Seth