PF uses DNS wildcards to answer any DNS query with the IP address of the captive portal. If you look for *anything* you should get the IP of the captive portal. If you are getting back a not found error then PFDNS is not configured correctly.
Exactly what is wrong is hard to say without more info but try sending random DNS queries like: ghlsfgillsadbh.com It should still return the IP of your captive portal. even sub-domains should work. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________ From: Dell Thornhill [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PacketFence-users] Captive portal DNS issue I'm having trouble reaching the captive portal from within the registration VLAN. As I understand it PF is supposed to intercept DNS queries from made by the client and automagically redirect them the Captive Portal. However when I have have wireshark running on the client and I ping vlan-registration.test.mydomain.com<http://vlan-registration.test.mydomain.com> I get "no such domain" returned from PF. So this indicates that DNS is indeed running and functional on PF, but it doesn't know what I'm talking about. Perhaps because I'm using a subdomain? My networks.conf: [10.2.6.0] dns=10.2.6.1 dhcp_start=10.2.6.10 gateway=10.2.6.1 domain-name=vlan-isolation.test.mydomain.com<http://vlan-isolation.test.mydomain.com> named=enabled dhcp_max_lease_time=30 dhcpd=enabled type=vlan-isolation netmask=255.255.255.0 dhcp_end=10.2.6.246 dhcp_default_lease_time=30 [10.2.5.0] dns=10.2.5.1 dhcp_start=10.2.5.10 gateway=10.2.5.1 domain-name=vlan-registration.test.mydomain.com<http://vlan-registration.test.mydomain.com> named=enabled dhcp_max_lease_time=30 dhcpd=enabled type=vlan-registration netmask=255.255.255.0 dhcp_end=10.2.5.246 dhcp_default_lease_time=30 Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
