Hey Folks,
As a long time UTM Home user I decided to take the plunge and go XG. Yes its frustrating at times but after persisting for a few days I now have almost everything working the way it should.
I say almost as I have an annoying problem with the DNS, my problem is this. I like many I'm sure run my own SMTP/IMAP mail server behind the XG serving mail for my registered domain name.
On the external registrars DNS server I have setup the required A record to point my MX records and host name to my external IP address and after setting up the required business rules to forward SMTP/S and IMAPS to my internal server external access works well.
Now when I'm back home and behind the XG I use the same phone/laptop etc to access my mail so need to have the XG resolve the DNS name to the internal IP address for these private clients.
I have added a static DNS entry on the XG mapping the correct entry and selected IPv4 first in the DNS query order. From a client machine 50% of the time the DNS resolves correctly to the internal address however the other 50% of the time the DNS is resolved to the external IP address of the XG i.e. as if the XG is not resolving the request locally but instead forwarding the request to the external DNS server.
For static 'desktop' clients I can tweak local hosts files to override the issue but this isn't an option on my smart phone and impractical on my laptop.
Any pointers on what I need to do in order for XG to consistently resolve the DNS?
Cheers
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