Hey all,
Can’t believe that I’ve never tried to do this before but I’m struggling to work out how to add txt records(or for that matter anything other than A records) to the DNS resolver in pfSense.
Google seems to be indicating that you can do it via the advanced settings box but I can’t find much detail. Could anyone give me a simple example of say a TXT record that returns “ms=xxxyyyzzz”.
I don’t know that you can as I don’t think DNS Resolver was ever designed to act as the authoritative DNS for your domain.
I’d like to say I worked it out, but I didn’t, this guy however did https://jeff.thatonedomain.com/adding-an-opendkim-txt-record-in-unbound-under-pfsense/ I’ve tested it and it works, but I did have to put my FQDN in. So in his example where is ends _domainkey I had to put _domainkey.mydomain.com. One thing to note, if you use pfBlockerNG I have a feeling in the back of my mind (I could be wrong) it wipes out or rearranges the settings in the DNS custom options box when you make changes.
@LTS_Tom yeah, which is probably why I have never actually had to try and do it before. I have a site with a couple of Win7 machines left that talk to a samba DC and wanted to replicate the DNS from that so I can set the DNS servers to be the same as the rest of the network. I could just point the samba box to the pfsense vm and leave all the PCs talking to samba for now.
@Acestes I found and read that article and totally didn’t get it. I’ve just looked at it again and it now makes much more sense for some reason. Maybe a break from work and some food has helped with the understanding. Thanks for posting it.