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    WebGUI slow when WAN is down

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      alltime
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      I am noticing that whenever our WAN is down, pfSense runs at a crawl. Although the WebGUI is painfully slow, it doesn't time out. Only when the WAN link is 100% operational does the system run smooth. I found the following BUG documentation, however, this was from several years ago. Surely this has been resolved. Does anyone else experience this issue?

      I am seeing that the possible causes are DNS.

      https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1407

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        Slasky
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        Do you use the pfsense as a DNS forwarder or a DNS resolver?

        And do you Connect to the webGUI through a FQDN or IP-address?

        It can still be an issue if it Wastes time trying to resolve DNS requests that it can't forward.

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          grandrivers
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          I experienced this the other day multi wan setup did not have defualt wan switching enabled, do now its better but still not great

          pfsense plus 25.03 super micro A1SRM-2558F
          C2558 32gig ECC  60gig SSD

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