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Which firewall can accept FQDN's in its rules?
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 98186" data-source="post: 1027125"><p>The FQDN still has to be mapped to an IP address. You can't make firewall rules that just point to "<a href="http://www.FQDN" target="_blank">www.FQDN</a>" without IP address mapping. Packets are routed by IP addresses.</p><p></p><p>The Microsoft Endpoint Manager permits the admin to enter a FQDN into the rules and then through a service it auto-resolves the IP addresses for the admin - so they don't have to figure out the IP addresses manually. Also, there are dependencies for FQDNs in firewall rules to work.</p><p></p><p>In short, the DNS resolution is being done by MEM as a "convenience" for the admin.</p><p></p><p>You could put pfsense onto a router and use FQDNs, but you still have to map those FQDNs to IP addresses manually in pfsense.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Microsoft Endpoint Manager.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 98186, post: 1027125"] The FQDN still has to be mapped to an IP address. You can't make firewall rules that just point to "[URL="http://www.FQDN"]www.FQDN[/URL]" without IP address mapping. Packets are routed by IP addresses. The Microsoft Endpoint Manager permits the admin to enter a FQDN into the rules and then through a service it auto-resolves the IP addresses for the admin - so they don't have to figure out the IP addresses manually. Also, there are dependencies for FQDNs in firewall rules to work. In short, the DNS resolution is being done by MEM as a "convenience" for the admin. You could put pfsense onto a router and use FQDNs, but you still have to map those FQDNs to IP addresses manually in pfsense. Microsoft Endpoint Manager. [/QUOTE]
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