On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:52:20AM -0400, ED Fochler wrote:
> You may be getting overruled by the self protecting hidden rules of pfsesne.
> 
> System -> Advanced -> [Admin Access] -> Anti-lockout

That sounds like what I want, but the text for that option gives a
dire warning that it could lock me out if I don't have the right
firewall rule in place, but I'm unclear what rule I should use.  I
have all the rules that are associated with the WAN->OPT1 NAT
forwards.

> Alternatively, Services -> DNS Forwarder -> host overrides … could
> point internal machines to the DMZ address instead of the outside
> address when they lookup the name.

I didn't see that option.  Bear in mind that I'm not using the pfsense
DHCP or DNS.  I'm using dnsmasq on the LAN.

Since I've determined that I can get to the DMZ via the internal IP, I
may just toss in the towel and list all the web sites in my local
DNS.  Ugh.  That's so unclean.

> It is possible that you are just trying to do too many things with a
> single IP address to safely make them all happen.  Disabling
> PFSense’s idiot-proofing features may be your best path forward.

Some sage said that any system that keeps you from doing something
stupid will also keep you from doing something clever.

> And do your link testing with wget or checklink.  Web browsers often
> cache a http_redirect in a kind of permanent manner, not even look
> at the server for changes.  wget doesn’t have enough of a brain to
> suffer from such brain damage.
> 
>       ED.
> 
> 
> > On 2015, Apr 19, at 11:13 PM, Bob McClure Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 07:51:24PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> >> On 04/19/2015 06:37 PM, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> >> ...
> >> 
> >>> Now if anyone has a clue about this apparent Firefox brain damage, I'm
> >>> all ears.  I just restarted Firefox, and it's still hosed.
> > 
> > Well, I take back what I took back, that is, Firefox brain damage.  I
> > just discovered that two other applications fail the same way.  The
> > other affected apps are wget and checklink.  The latter is a Perl link
> > checker from W3C that uses the LWP::RobotUA, LWP::UserAgent, and
> > Net::HTTP::Methods modules.  I can work around the wget problem, but a
> > checklink failure is a show-stopper.  We use that to check for broken
> > links in new and modified web pages.  Those two apps are run from the
> > file server on the LAN to the web sites on the DMZ (OPT1).  The
> > Firefox problem is on my workstation on the LAN.  Both of those are
> > Linux CentOS machines.  Interestingly enough, my wife's Win7 Firefox,
> > also on the LAN, does not have a problem.
> > 
> > I'm lobbing this back into pfsense's court.
> > 
> >> My first check is to hide the default user profile (make a new one
> >> to use without copying over anything from the old), and see if that
> >> takes care of things.  If it does, then selectively pull back in
> >> Good Things (passwords, etc).
> > 
> > Thanks for the hint, but it appears not to be (just) a Firefox
> > problem.
> > 
> >> Kenward
> >> -- 
> >> In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
> >> _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
> >> because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
> >> ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone
> >> could have.     - Lee Iacocca
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> > Bob McClure, Jr.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
[email protected]             http://www.bobcatos.com
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than
sacrifice.  Proverbs 21:3 (NIV)
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