On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Buckmaster [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:24 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Multiwan and DNS forwarder
>>
>> Actually, the easier way to do this is to use policy routes.
>> Create aliases called ISP1DNS and ISP2DNS and put the
>> appropriate DNS server IPs in those two aliases.  Then create
>> firewall rules on your LAN
>> interface(s) above any load balancing rules which will match
>> DNS traffic to the appropriate DNS servers and select the
>> appropriate gateway.
>>
> I would think your approach would work if the end computer was requesting
> dns from the real dns server, not using dns forwarding.  I think the DNS
> request does not originate from the Lan, but from the router itself.  I may
> be wrong in this though.
>

Yeah, that is correct, if you're using the DNS forwarder you must use
static routes.

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