Configuring Hostname, Domain Name And Dns Servers; Hostname; Domain; Dns Servers - pfSense SG-4860 Quick Start Manual

Configuring Hostname, Domain Name and DNS Servers

Figure 5

Hostname

For hostname, you may enter anything as it does not affect functionality of the firewall. Assigning a
hostname to the firewall will allow you to access the GUI console by hostname as well as IP address.
For the purposes of this guide, we will use pfsense for the Hostname as shown in Figure 5
The default hostname, pfsense may be left unchanged.
Once saved in the configuration, console access can be reached by entering http://pfsense as well as
http://192.168.1.1

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
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