Why do only Specific Sites Timeout?
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Hello,
I went to try and buy some car parts and discovered a bizarre issue happening only on my home network LAN where I just simply run a Netgate 8200 behind my ISP gateway, which I just setup a few weeks ago. Currently my configured DNS servers are Google 8.8.8.8 and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 as set on both my General Setup & DHCP Server for my LAN devices.
There's currently a few specific websites I'm totally unable to reach from my home network...
- https://parts.subaru.com/ which resolves to 198.24.56.237
- https://simplepart.com/ which resolves to 72.28.104.100
- https://parts.faulknersubarumechanicsburg.com/ which resolves to 198.24.56.235
I get nothing but connection timeouts when trying to view these websites. A week ago, these websites worked for me just fine. I initially tried these on my laptop with Firefox, Brave, & Edge, but then realized they're timing out in pfSense > Diagnostics as well.
I removed my smartphone from the home WiFi and tried these sites and they immediately work perfectly fine over the cell network, even though they're still timing out on my home laptop... Also had my girlfriend at work try the sites and they work fine there as well. So the issue is isolated only to my LAN... All other websites I've tried today work fine too such as Reddit, YouTube, FreePBX.org, Expedia, etc.
So WHY would only a small subset of websites seemingly be timing out for me, presumably during the DNS query? There are no other devices running in my LAN which would mess with DNS for me, just pfSense is handling all this.
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@Zosh-0 If you have DNS Resolver set to forward, uncheck DNSSEC. It can cause false failures if forwarding.
reference: https://docs.quad9.net/Setup_Guides/Open-Source_Routers/pfSense_%28Encrypted%29/#instructions
