Package Manager: Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com

vorr

Hi, i wanted a better quality router and i installed pfsense 2.1-RC1 (amd64) NanoBSD 4g built on Wed Aug 28 and every works ok except when i tried to see what packages are available for this build and i came across the follwing error"
"Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com. Please verify DNS and interface configuration, and that pfSense has functional Internet connectivity."

i did the following troubleshooting on the shell prompt

tested if i can ping


ping www.pfsense.com

PING www.pfsense.org (192.207.126.26): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.207.126.26: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=179.622 ms

tested if i get dns info


dig www.pfsense.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5-P1 <<>> pfsense.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16137
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pfsense.com.            300     IN      CNAME   pfsense.org.
pfsense.org.            300     IN      A       192.207.126.26

;; Query time: 253 msec
;; SERVER: 195.170.0.1#53(195.170.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 30 17:57:07 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70

i tried to get something


fetch -o /tmp/test http://www.pfsense.com

(after 90seconds of waiting/timeout)

/tmp/test                                     100% of   13 kB   41 kBps

but

fetch -o /tmp/test http://192.207.126.26/

(1 second delay)

/tmp/test                                     100% of   13 kB   40 kBps

some more fetches

fetch -o /tmp/test http://www.google.com/

(30 seconds delay)

fetch -o /tmp/test http://www.otenet.gr (my provider)

(instant)

my connection is pppoe and ive set mtu 1492 and mss 1452

i still cant figure out how to solve this problem, any hints?

EDIT:

tried diagnostics-> nslookup , it takes 30 seconds to bring back result

running it from prompt is instant

stephenw10

You seem to be mixing .org and .com in your tests. I assume you tried both?

Steve

vorr

I didnt mix anything, pfense.org and pfsense.org are the same, if i try and ping pfsense.com it resolves to pfsense.org

doktornotor

Another guy with messed up IPv6 connectivity?


env ip6addrctl_enable="yes" ip6addrctl_policy="prefer_ipv4" /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl start

vorr

it seems so, running the command fixed the problem. The thing is, i didnt mess up with any setting so could it be that the default settings dont work out of the box? my isp has dual stack but i dont see any ipv6 address anywhere. i guess it will be fixed it a future update. thank you very much for your reply

doktornotor

Well, not really possible to help without knowing how does the ISP "ship" the IPv6 connectivity to customers. Usually documented somewhere on their web.

vorr

i did some search on how my isp servers ipv6 and i found some info for a router zte w300 if it suggests
For WAN
DHCP IPv6 Mode: SLAAC
DHCP PD: Enable
MLD Proxy: Disable

For LAN
Radvd Enable: Enable
Radvd mode: Auto
DHCP6 server: enable
DHCP6 mode: auto