Today I moved my home from a dlink firewall to a PFSense firewall when doing so I lost connection to my unraid server.

 

Server setup

two network cards primary was static IP 192.168.1.2, secondary was dynamic

Encryption in enabled

 

Once i swapped over to the PFSense firewall I was able to log into my server using the 2nd nic with dynamic address.  I stopped docker services went into my network settings and set the primary ip address to dynamic.  After that I've lost all contact with the server.  I hooked up a monitor and keyboard to the server and got nothing on the screen.  I powered down the server, let it set for 30 sec powered it back on got my bios, and the selection screen where I could select boot mode Unraid, Unraid Gui, Unraid GUI safemode and such.  I chose unraid GUI Safe Mode it went through all the normal linux loading scroll but never gave me a prompt.

 

Now I'm stuck as to what to do. Can I pull the USB and edit network files on that to get it back up by assigning a static IP to the primary address?

Update,

 

I was able to finally boot into Safe Mode, I've set all networking to no bridging no bonding see if that resolved the problem.  

 

When trying to connect to it from my desktop i get 

This site can’t be reached

xxxxxx.unraid.net took too long to respond.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by ChatNoir
anonymized the adress

Use https://IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER

pfsense has DNS rebinding enabled by default, you need to disable that in order for hash.unraid.net to be able to resolve to a local IP address.  Here are some hints, you may need to Google for more:

 

If you are using pfSense internal DNS resolver service, you can add these Custom Option lines:

server:
private-domain: "unraid.net"

 

Once you have that disabled, see this thread:

 

1 hour ago, jonathanm said:

Use https://IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER

 

^^ Thanks. this works like a champ... its always something simple that i miss....