Domain; Dns Servers; Time Server Configuration; Time Server Synchronization - Sense SG-2440pfSense Quick Start Manual

Domain

If you have an existing DNS domain in use within your network (such as a Microsoft Active Directory
domain), use that domain here. This is the domain suffix assigned to DHCP clients, which you will want to
match your internal network.
For networks without any internal DNS domains, you can enter anything you want.
We have chosen demodomain for the purposes of this Quick Start Guide.

DNS Servers

The DNS server fields may be left blank if you have a WAN connection using DHCP, PPTP or PPPoE types of
Internet connections and the ISP assigns DNS server IP addresses. When using a static IP on WAN, you must
enter DNS server IP addresses here for name resolution to function. You can specify DNS servers here even if
your ISP assigns different ones. Either enter the IP addresses provided by your ISP, or consider using a
service like OpenDNS (www.opendns.com) whose service which allows for options such as custom filtering
and phishing protection. Using Google's public DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) is another popular choice. We
have chosen Google DNS servers for the purpose of this Quick Start Guide. Click "Next" after filling in the
fields as appropriate.

Time Server Configuration

Figure 6

Time Server Synchronization

Setting time server synchronization is quite simple. We recommend using the default pfSense time server as
displayed in Figure 6.
Setting Time Zone
Select the appropriate time zone for your location. For purposes of this manual, the Timezone setting will be
set to US/Central as displayed in Figure 7.
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