It looks like i did something wrong sometime ago when trying to use static routes
and probably missed writing a static route for the IP address that i ping on OPT1 interface,
thus that making both WAN & OPT1 shown as Offline in Status/Load Balancer when doing a failover.
Every client on the network works fine while browsing when on failover, but
the pfSense computer has some performance issues at this point with
DNS resolving from within the pfSense console using host, because it takes several seconds
to resolve for example www.google.se which only takes below half a second when everything is
running normal.
When the primary WAN is offline(load balancer status) and my first static DNS server is the first on the list,
will pfSense still try to use the WAN NIC(i have added static routes for the DNS servers) to contact my first DNS server?
Or does it notice this itself and thus going directly for the second DNS server(it too has a static route pointing to OPT1)?
I'm trying to locate the source of the problem.
I even noticed that my static routes were gone from Diagnostics/routes, but they were still in
System/Static Routes. Had to edit one entry(but not changing anything in it) to get the Apply button to appear.
After pushing the button, my static routes were back in the route table. Strange ???.