Till, I’ll keep it simple!
pfdns is mainly resolving any request coming to it to the PacketFence portal URL (hostname + domain part configured in pf.conf) When a request coming from a known registration / isolation network, pfdns will simply returns the PacketFence URL. Some more advanced feature are also involving “punching holes” in the iptables firewall along with full DNS resolution when it comes to Oauth2 or passthrough per example. I think the easiest way to figure out the behavior you are getting would be to run tcpdump on the server and see what is going between it and the client. Cheers! -dw. — Derek Wuelfrath [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 (x110) :: +1.866.353.6153 (x110) Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) > On Apr 22, 2016, at 09:57, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello Derek, > > Thanks for your reply! > > At the moment pfdns is kind of a black box for me... I do not know from > where it takes its configuration. > > This is about an in-line configuration, and I am trying to use an > external captive portal with apache_proxy directives. At the moment I > get a "too many redirects" error message in my browser. > > It would help me a lot to understand the whole PF mechanisms when I > could see what exactly pfDNS is doing. What names it resolves to which > IPs, and where this data comes from... > > Cheers, > Till > > On 04/22/2016 03:39 PM, Derek Wuelfrath wrote: >> Hello Till, >> >> Not really sure what you are asking for. >> Can you be a bit more specific ? >> >> Cheers! >> -dw. >> >> — >> Derek Wuelfrath >> [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 (x110) :: +1.866.353.6153 (x110) >> Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence >> (www.packetfence.org) >> >>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 05:21, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> Somebody can tell me where I find the configuration of pfdns? Or better: >>> How to find out his current name to IP database? I needed this for >>> debugging reasons. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Till >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager >>> Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers >>> of >>> your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and >>> reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! >>> https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PacketFence-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager >> Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers >> of >> your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and >> reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! >> https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z >> _______________________________________________ >> PacketFence-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of > your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and > reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z > _______________________________________________ > PacketFence-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
