Bugs related to DNS, DHCP, Bridging and the GUI

kaarposoft

http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/show/440 has been updated with a patch.
Any help in testing and checking in this patch would be most appreciated.

See also http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/show/442 which contains a patch for re-installation of TinyDNS

kaarposoft

Should I create redmine bug reports for bug 2, 4 and 6 ?

eri--

resolv.conf file generation should be ok on latest snaps.

kaarposoft

I have been watching the git repo, but did not see the fix ???
Could you point me to where this was fixed?

eri--

Now the GUI cannot be contacted (neither on .222 nor on .254)

Did you gave time for it to be available?!
Usually it will take around 40-50 seconds for the gui to restart.

@kaparasoft
https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/1033de7481dacd83ee5a1a16078e89c7b4e9efd8

kaarposoft

I need to do a complete reinstall, so I will try again, making sure I wait at least one minute for the GUI to come up.

I am not so sure the 033de7481dacd83ee5a1a16078e89c7b4e9efd8 commit fixes the problem.
TinyDNS is reading and writing /etc/resolv.conf, not /var/etc/nameservers_*
But I will try it out!

kaarposoft

Unfortunately, I can confirm that the fix did not work.
I did a clean install of 20100324-0246.
Even without TinyDNS, resolving is borked, as /etc/resolv.conf does not contain any nameservers!
(I will continue to see if I can pinpoint the problem…)

eri--

can you please show me the output of ls /var/etc/nameserver_*
Do they have any ip on them?

kaarposoft

Found the problem!

It is in system.inc function get_nameservers. You have:


$master_list[] = $item;

but it should be:


$master_list[] = $dns;

kaarposoft

Regarding bug #2:

@ermal:

Now the GUI cannot be contacted (neither on .222 nor on .254)

Did you gave time for it to be available?!
Usually it will take around 40-50 seconds for the gui to restart.

I can confirm (20100324-0246 snapshot) that after 10 minutes, neither GUI nor SSH can be contacted on .222 or .254.
After reboot GUI and SSH are available on .254

eri--

An ifconfig and netstat -rn would be useful

kaarposoft

netstat -f inet -l
shows nothing listening on any ports.

I will try the "netstat -rn" next time I am rebuilding the box.

Efonnes

kaarposoft: netstat -rn is for showing the routing table, not the status of ports.

kaarposoft

I know, but I can only do it when I reinstall the box!

kaarposoft

I tried again: Installing 20100324-0246, upgrading to 20100324-2048 from console.
Following the steps of the original post.

After activating the bridge and setting LAN to "none", I get:


netstat -rn
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            87.52.xx.1         UGS         0       15    vr0
87.52.xx.0/24      link#1             U           0      708    vr0
87.52.xx.120       link#1             UHS         0        0    lo0
127.0.0.1          link#12            UH          0     1127    lo0
127.0.0.2          127.0.0.1          UHS         0        0    lo0
192.168.yy.254     link#13            UHS         0        0    lo0

(plus a lot of IPv6; xx and yy are my sanitizing).
Link#1 is the LAN, #12 is lo0 and #13 is the bridge.

After reboot I get:


Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            87.52.xx.1         UGS         0       47    vr0
87.52.xx.0/24      link#1             U           0      137    vr0
87.52.xx.120       link#1             UHS         0        0    lo0
127.0.0.1          link#12            UH          0       19    lo0
127.0.0.2          127.0.0.1          UHS         0        0    lo0
192.168.yy.0/24    link#13            U           0        1 bridge
192.168.yy.254     link#13            UHS         0        0    lo0

But this time, I get no working GUI even after reboot :o