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General Discussion / Re: OPNsense + Pi-Hole Questions

« on: March 19, 2020, 02:30:13 pm »

I have mine setup a little different with pi-hole.

I use the router DHCP.  The DNS for the clients is set to the pi-hole address.  Pi-holes upstream DNS is set to the router, and the routers upstream DNS is set to whatever (1.1.1.1 in my case).  So client -> pi-hole -> router -> external DNS.

On pi-hole, go to settings and check "Use conditional forwarding" and enter your router address and domain name.

All of the clients use pi-hole for DNS.  Pi-hole is able to resolve local names and it resolves DNS via the router (Unbound by default).

What I haven't figured out is how to forward external DNS requests to pi-hole.  i.e., Some devices like Chromecast will also use Google DNS (even though DHCP specifies a different server).  I can't seem to setup a port forwarding rule to forward requests to 8.8.8.8 to pi-hole.  I can only get that to work by forwarding to the router (per that link posted earlier).

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General Discussion / Access to web gui

« on: March 01, 2020, 04:10:45 pm »

I have a 3 node Linksys Velop router. I installed OPnsense on a 4 port Protectli appliance , switched my Velop to bridged mode and plugged it into the LAN port. All of the wireless devices connect just fine to the internet.

However, I can't access 192.168.1.1 to get to the web gui. I can ping it though.

If I plug a laptop directly into the LAN port, I can access the web gui. But not the internet.

I'm new to this type setup and am a little lost.