Request to pfSense.localdomain timed-out

tushar

Hello,

Alomost no websites working. only youtube work flawlessly.

sometimes redmondpie loads very slow.

If i use 8.8.8.8 on my local machine all websites resolves perfect.

tried everything restarted DNS service DHCP SNORT pfblockerNG.

C:\Documents and Settings\tushar>nslookup www.pfsense.org
Server:  pfSense.localdomain
Address:  192.168.1.1

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** pfSense.localdomain can't find www.pfsense.org: Server failed

C:\Documents and Settings\tushar>nslookup www.amazon.com
Server:  pfSense.localdomain
Address:  192.168.1.1

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to pfSense.localdomain timed-out

C:\Documents and Settings\tushar>nslookup www.facebook.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    star-mini.c10r.facebook.com
Address:  31.13.95.36
Aliases:  www.facebook.com

C:\Documents and Settings\kislay>nslookup www.pfsense.org
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.pfsense.org
Address:  208.123.73.69

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johnpoz

Do you have your ACLs setup? Did you mess with those?

To me from that permissions denied statement in the log I think you have your accesslist messed up. And not allowing anyone to query the resolver.

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tushar

nothing is messed up sir. i did nothing just started this morning when i tried to access some websites like redmondpie fb etc.

don't know what happend

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johnpoz

well without accesslist not going to be able to use resolver.

tushar

what "without accesslist not going to be able to use resolver"

im using internet without any modification since one month. i didn't added or removed anything from access list.

KOM

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/

tushar

Sir KOM,

here if i put 8.8.8.8 on machine manually FB open flawlessly but on 192.168.1.1 pfsense ip nothing server not found. only youtube working fine fine

KOM

Yes, I understood that the first time you said it. You are either having a DNS problem with your upstream or your configuration is somehow broken. Since a couple of people are complaining about DNS today, I thought it might be related to the DDoS of DynDNS.

johnpoz

Yeah there is a major ddos to a major dns provider going on right now. If they are hosting the authoritative servers for domains your interested in looking up then you going to have a problem.

Looking up pfsense own name has nothing to do with outside dns though. You have to have a access list to be able to query resolver. I you can not query pfsense own name, then resolver not running, your not allowed because of accesslist or you have connectivity issue or something broke in the resolver.


user@ubuntu:~$ dig pfsense.local.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.9-Ubuntu <<>> pfsense.local.lan
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4439
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.local.lan.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pfsense.local.lan.      3600    IN      A       192.168.9.253

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.9.253#53(192.168.9.253)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 11:00:03 CDT 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 62

I pulled my local network out of the access list


user@ubuntu:~$ dig pfsense.local.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.9-Ubuntu <<>> pfsense.local.lan
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 24649
;; flags: qr rd ad; QUERY: 0, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.9.253#53(192.168.9.253)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 11:01:21 CDT 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 12

I upped the logging level in my resolver.


Oct 21 11:03:29 	unbound 	71253:1 	debug: refused query from ip4 192.168.9.8 port 57371 (len 16)
Oct 21 11:03:29 	unbound 	71253:1 	debug: refuse[41:0] 5C7C010000010000000000000C7361666562726F7773696E6706676F6F676C6503636F6D0000010001
Oct 21 11:03:29 	unbound 	71253:1 	debug: refused query from ip4 192.168.9.8 port 57371 (len 16)
Oct 21 11:03:29 	unbound 	71253:1 	debug: refuse[41:0] 5C7C010000010000000000000C7361666562726F7773696E6706676F6F676C6503636F6D0000010001
Oct 21 11:03:29 	unbound 	71253:1 	debug: refused query from ip4 192.168.9.8 port 57371 (len 16)
Oct 21 11:03:24 	unbound 	71253:0 	debug: refuse[50:0] 6BE4010000010000000000000F6C6F672D72747332342D69616430310764657669636573046E65737403636F6D0000010001
Oct 21 11:03:24 	unbound 	71253:0 	debug: refused query from ip4 192.168.4.96 port 47019 (len 16)

You can see it refusing queries from my local network.

Do you have this checked or unchecked?

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NOYB

For me resolver is unable to resolve at least these two domans:
github.com
twitter.com

johnpoz

yeah those are listed as two of the domains that are hosted there..

github.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.p16.dynect.net.
github.com. 172800 IN NS ns4.p16.dynect.net.

twitter.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.p34.dynect.net.
twitter.com. 172800 IN NS ns4.p34.dynect.net.

dynect.net is what is under ddos.

tushar

its unchecked no modification done on this page.

only youtube is working properly…. How to correct my dns resolver if it get corrupted

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tushar

I plugged Linksys RV042 everything working fine. just pfSense having problem unbound DNS resolving…

Any hope for broken Unbound DNS resolver or fresh install again?? :-\

JeGr

Yet again. Nothing todo with Unbound per se. Just try some different upstream DNS servers to test. I had problems a few days ago, too and adding e.g. an opendns and another local free dns server in addition to 8.8.8.8 helped solving it as even the Google DNS couldn't resolve twitter and github anymore. A few others had other cache timings etc. so could still resolve them. That helped.

Also restart/refresh unbound so it resolves the domains again and doesn't use negative caching against you.
Use "ipconfig /flushdns" as you're using windows. That caches negative DNS, too.
Not everything is simply a pfSense problem ;)

tushar

@JeGr:

Yet again. Nothing todo with Unbound per se. Just try some different upstream DNS servers to test. I had problems a few days ago, too and adding e.g. an opendns and another local free dns server in addition to 8.8.8.8 helped solving it as even the Google DNS couldn't resolve twitter and github anymore. A few others had other cache timings etc. so could still resolve them. That helped.

Also restart/refresh unbound so it resolves the domains again and doesn't use negative caching against you.
Use "ipconfig /flushdns" as you're using windows. That caches negative DNS, too.
Not everything is simply a pfSense problem ;)

i did what you said still same. check screenshots what settings i do more….

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johnpoz

Ya think maybe your pfblocker dns might have something to do it it ;)

lets go over this again.. Can you query pfsense own name from something on your network?

example

dig pfsense.local.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.11.0 <<>> pfsense.local.lan
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51432
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.local.lan. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pfsense.local.lan. 3600 IN A 192.168.9.253

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.9.253#53(192.168.9.253)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 06:24:07 Central Daylight Time 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 62

nslookup pfsense.local.lan
Server: pfsense.local.lan
Address: 192.168.9.253

Name: pfsense.local.lan
Addresses: 2001:470:snipped::1
192.168.9.253

tushar

Yes Sir,

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ dig pfsense.local.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> pfsense.local.lan
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7057
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.local.lan.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.			3559	IN	SOA	a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2016102400 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 46 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 17:03:25 IST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ dig pfsense.local.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> pfsense.local.lan
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 11851
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.local.lan.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.			3499	IN	SOA	a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2016102400 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 17:08:44 IST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ nslookup pfsense.local.lan
Server:		127.0.1.1
Address:	127.0.1.1#53

** server can't find pfsense.local.lan: NXDOMAIN

See only youtube working very fine only….

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ dig www.youtube.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> www.youtube.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42624
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.youtube.com.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.youtube.com.	86385	IN	CNAME	youtube-ui.l.google.com.
youtube-ui.l.google.com. 286	IN	A	216.58.220.206

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 17:25:42 IST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 94

johnpoz

And u are doing query to loopback 127.0.1.1 not pfsense where is ur linix box sending tahat query?

tushar

@johnpoz:

And u are doing query to loopback 127.0.1.1 not pfsense where is ur linix box sending tahat query?

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> pfsense.localdomain
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19430
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pfsense.localdomain.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pfsense.localdomain.	3600	IN	A	192.168.2.1

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 20:43:19 IST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 64

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ nslookup pfsense.localdomain
Server:		127.0.1.1
Address:	127.0.1.1#53

Name:	pfsense.localdomain
Address: 192.168.2.1

Small correction pfsense.localdomain not pfsense.local.lan. This is all what i get dig output, using same configuration since 16days no reboot. suddenly stopped resolving hostnames, somehow only youtube working fine without any problem.

should i need to specify dns ip also - System/General Setup/ DNS Server setting

also using some packages like SNORT, pfblockerNG, squid proxy transparent mode. ClamAV.

johnpoz

U need to query pfsense directly with ur dig command because where is linux actualy sending that quer? U are doing query to itself