[Solved?] recent update made host computer unable to reach its own hosted page

Started by FarmServer, April 21, 2022, 03:27:36 PM

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I have a computer on my network hosting a webpage at www.mydomain.com. External requests were forwarded to the host computer using opnsense port forward rules and I had the nat 1:1 reflection option enabled to allow other devices on my network to reach the website using www.mydomain.com instead of having to use the IP address of the host machine.

Strangely, after the most recent update of opnsense the host computer can no longer reach its own website using www.mydomain.com. It can get there using its own IP address. Every other computer on the network can still get to the page using www.mydomain.com, as can devices from external IPs.

So did something change with the way NAT reflection or forwarding rules work recently? I need an API on the host machine to be able to contact the website using the www.mydomain.com address so the ssl certs are valid.

The host computer is on its own subnet, all other machines are on various other subnets. The host is running debian stable with a LAMP stack. I am not seeing requests on the firewall from the host machine trying to reach itself, but can see other local subnet addresses communicating with the host machine, as well as external addresses. So it seems like a setting somewhere is blocking domain name resolution for this one machine all of a sudden.

Well I sort of fixed it by disabling my firewall rules and re-enabling them. As well as flushing the arp tables. Something must have hung up in the update that a restart did not clear out.