HI Well were finally on out migration fromUTM to XG. First thing I;m got a question is the availabity groups on XG. Any way you can replicate the availability group functionality on XG?

Hi, If I have multiple addresses listed under a dns entry, does this act like the failover group on the UTM or a round robin DNS? The documentation makes no mention of the implications of having more than one address listed for an entry. I'm setting…

Is there a way to make a dns request route apply to all sub-domains? Example: dns request route for domain.com would also apply to sub.domain.com and sub.sub.domain.com

Hello, we have simple setup with our network. Now we added vlans for our wifi. (multiple, one for guest , notebooks, smartphones) If i get it correct it would be much safer of security point to let the Sophos XG getting all dns request right?…

Hi everyone, I'm a long time UTM user that just made the cut over to Sophos Firewall and I've got one nagging issue that I can't figure out. The first time a user goes to browse a web page, there is a delay of 10-15 seconds or so. Once you get past that…

Hi! I installed Sophos XG VM in my home and I'm testing it and probably will use it for my home net and lab. Sophos runs as a VM on my homelab server. I have 2 ubnets there: 1. 192.168.1.0/24 - called Outside wih FW WAN interface attached to it…

Hi, noticed this behavior: - XG configured for 3 DNS servers - on upstream device only those 3 DNS servers are allowed for XG - occasionally XG sends DNS request to many other DNS servers and these are denied by upstream device - issue on 18.5.1 and…

Couldn't delete the post, so am editing it. I figured out how to add the XGS as the DNS server: in DHCP, uncheck the box to use the DNS settings and set the interface IP as the DNS server.

Hello all, I have 2 locations (HO & BO) each behind their own XG Firewall. I have created a Site to Site VPN and everything works via IP but not by DNS. The Setup is as follows: All servers are hosted in the HO. There are no servers in the BO. S…

hi. i have XG210 (SFOS 17.5.14 MR-14-1). it is also acting as DHCP server and giving ip to clients.in DHCP i configured DNS server of my local server i.e, domain controller. today i start having issue the i m not able to access the server placed in my…

Hi, I have two WANs connected on my Sophos XG SFOS 18.5.1. The DNS is configured with " Obtain DNS from PPPoE". My Problem now is, that my PhoneSystem is using DNS from the Sophos. But it may only use the DNS from WAN2 and not from WAN1. How…

I am running the latest XG release and am finding that sometimes DNS resolution is stopping. The Firewall is responsible for DNS requests. The problem tends to go away on its own by just waiting or I can force it by restarting the DNS service. Any suggestions…

I found a few similar questions from different people over the years as to why their XG makes constant DNS lookups to huge amounts of domains with none of the posts having a useful answer. Unfortunately all those threads were locked due to age so I've…

Hello, I have a XG with two interfaces in WAN zone (because I need a gateway for both) in a data center housing scenario. Let's call the interfaces WAN-int and WAN-ext. WAN-ext has a public IP-address and WAN-int has a private IP-address. …

hi all, on the sophos xgs firewall on the diagnostics i can ping 8.8.8.8 but i cant ping google.co.uk under "network > dns" i have added a few dns ips in there but when i go back to diagnostics ping, i type in google.co.uk, ipv4, select my wan interface…