How to access sophos XG firewall with its name instead of IP address

Admin access from the WAN is dangerous. More secure would be to use Sophos Central, if that's an option for you.

To access from the WAN -- say for VPN access -- you'll need a DNS entry. If you don't have a dedicated IP, for example your IP address is provided by your ISP via DHCP, you can use DDNS. You can get a domain name from someplace like Google DDNS for $10 a year (or more for a "cooler" domain name), and then use the DDNS service of the firewall to keep the DNS entry updated every 5 minutes.

As Wayne suggested, use Sophos Central Management (CM) which provides remote access. The limited version of CM is free, stores 7 days of data and provides secure remote access to your XG without exposing the WAN interface.

Ian

Hello,

Thanks , got  your point.

But I need to access an internal server , so I thought I would safer to access it by name of Firewall instead of WAN IP.

Also where do change the name of the Firewall ? As I am new to this XG , earlier we  were using Cyberoam.

I've probably misunderstood, but it seems you're getting confused between internal and external DNS and their functions.

To answer your original question, you probably need to create a record with public DNS host, for whatever TLD you want the firewall to be a subdomain of.

In terms of changing the hostname of the firewall, I honestly don't think you should be playing about with the firewall and it's config if you're struggling to figure this out, sorry.

Like I said, I've probably misunderstood something here.

Hi Wayne,

I don't think you have misunderstood the thread, the last post from the user changes direction from the original request for assistance.

Ian