Setting Hostname to XG firewall v18 query

Hi,

you will need to create a DNS entry that is not advertised on the WAN. in the network tab of the GUI.

Ian

Hi Ian,

Thank you for your response, however I have checked that it is not published on the WAN. 

DNS host entry setting asks if it should be published on the WAN or not and I have left it unchecked, so it isn't advertised 

Hi,

did you use the internal address of the XG and did you tick add reverse lookup for this entry?

Works fine with my XG

Ian

I have inserted the internal IP address I have manually configured and have the reverse DNS lookup inserted in the DNS host entry part.

Type in FirewallXG:4444 in the browser, but I get no response.

I get the FirewallXG unexpectedly closed the connection

Do you have the XG ca installed and have you cleared you browser cache?

ian

I've uploaded the Appliance Certificate.

I have not yet added the security cert.

And you used https://xgfirewall:4444

ian

Affirmative,

Just to add when I ping the host name it doesn't ping, but it does show it resolves to the set IP address, it just doesn't return a response.

The firewall is on the domain it just doesn't point to anything at the moment well except for the UTM. There is a UTM appliance for Web protection, will be replacing it soon with the XG once it is configured like for like for the most part.

Something strange happened recently, I was inserting the Ip address in the Web proxy exceptions box win 10 settings  and I was able to access and then one day nothing, I now have to add my machine ip address to the UTM 9 in order for me to access with the IP address, what is likely to have happened, any ideas? 

Affirmative,

Just to add when I ping the host name it doesn't ping, but it does show it resolves to the set IP address, it just doesn't return a response.

The firewall is on the domain it just doesn't point to anything at the moment well except for the UTM. There is a UTM appliance for Web protection, will be replacing it soon with the XG once it is configured like for like for the most part.

Something strange happened recently, I was inserting the Ip address in the Web proxy exceptions box win 10 settings  and I was able to access and then one day nothing, I now have to add my machine ip address to the UTM 9 in order for me to access with the IP address, what is likely to have happened, any ideas? 

Ok just tried something different, I connected to a server and everything from that server works as it should, so the problem is that individual clients are not able to ping to it.

Doesn't explain why I can still access the admin console using the IP address, but not the host name on these computer clients.

if you perform an nslookup for your firewall what is the respnse?

ian

Gives me my default server and address of the dns

Got it working, had to add an IPv4 unicast route for me to be able to access