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    HAProxy will hangs when I upgrade to pfsense 2.3.4

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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      That's fine, I don't need all of your specifics, mostly what I mentioned: Listening port(s) for the GUI and haproxy and if they are connected in some way, and answers to my other questions.

      I setup a simple haproxy instance on 2.4 with the widget, SSL offloading to a backend server, and it works fine there. I'll have to setup another web server to test 2.3.4, but I'd like to know more about how you have the haproxy and GUI daemons set to listen/bind on the firewall at least.

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        doktornotor Banned
        last edited by

        Hmmm. With a pretty simple setup with SSL offloading here, this works just fine as always. Then I have another fairly complicated one with lots of backends, multiple frontends and the pfSense GUI itself behind HAproxy plus the LUA ACME plugin, this works perfectly fine as well.

        Both have HAproxy on 80/443 and GUI at 4443, the HTTP => HTTPS redirect disabled for webGUI.

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          cjbujold
          last edited by

          here is my binding if it can help.

          Automaticaly generated, dont edit manually.

          Generated on: 2017-05-08 11:51

          global
          maxconn 10000
          stats socket /tmp/haproxy.socket level admin
          uid 80
          gid 80
          nbproc 1
          chroot /tmp/haproxy_chroot
          daemon
          tune.ssl.default-dh-param 2048
          server-state-file /tmp/haproxy_server_state

          listen HAProxyLocalStats
          bind 127.0.0.1:8080 name localstats
          mode http
          stats enable
          stats refresh 10
          stats admin if TRUE
          stats uri /haproxy/haproxy_stats.php?haproxystats=1
          timeout client 5000
          timeout connect 5000
          timeout server 5000

          frontend httpWEBSites
          bind 127.0.0.1:8080 name 127.0.0.1:8080 
          mode http
          log global
          option socket-stats
          option dontlog-normal
          option log-separate-errors
          option httplog
          option http-keep-alive
          option forwardfor
          acl https ssl_fc
          http-request set-header X-Forwarded-Proto http if !https
          http-request set-header X-Forwarded-Proto https if https
          timeout client 30000
          errorfile /var/etc/haproxy/errorfile_httpWEBSites__
          #remove header that expose security-sensitive information
          rspidel ^Server:.*S
          rspidel ^X-Powered-By:.*S
          rspidel ^X-AspNet-Version:.*S

          redirect scheme https if (hdr(Host) -i www.filopto.com ) !{ssl_fc }

          acl nas_acl hdr(host) -i famille.accra.ca
          acl syncbox_acl hdr(host) -i syncbox.accra.ca
          acl syncbox_acl hdr(host) -i securebackup.accra.ca
          acl remotehelp_acl hdr(host) -i remotehelp.accra.ca
          acl ftpserver_acl hdr(host) -i ftpweb.accra.ca
          acl demofilopto_acl hdr(host) -i demo.filopto.com
          acl accra_acl hdr_end(host) -i accra.ca
          acl filopto_acl hdr_end(host) -i filopto.com
          acl dragondreams_acl hdr_end(host) -i dragondreams.ca
          acl dragondoodles_acl hdr_end(host) -i dragondoodles.ca
          acl ajefnb_acl hdr_end(host) -i ajefnb.nb.ca
          use_backend NasWEBServer4_http_ipvANY  if  nas_acl
          use_backend Securebackup16_http_ipvANY  if  syncbox_acl
          use_backend RemoteHelp25_http_ipvANY  if  remotehelp_acl
          use_backend FiloptoDemoWEBSite103_http_ipvANY  if  demofilopto_acl
          use_backend WEBServer14_http_ipvANY  if  filopto_acl
          use_backend WEBServer14_http_ipvANY  if  dragondreams_acl
          use_backend WEBServer14_http_ipvANY  if  dragondoodles_acl
          use_backend WEBServer14_http_ipvANY  if  ajefnb_acl
          default_backend WEBServer14_http_ipvANY

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            Salient
            last edited by

            I'm having the same issue.  I run haproxy on port 4343 which doesn't conflict with any other ports.

            I'd also like to know more about these awesome domains:
              acl        dragondreams_acl  hdr_end(host) -i dragondreams.ca
              acl        dragondoodles_acl  hdr_end(host) -i dragondoodles.ca

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              @cjbujold:

              […]
              listen HAProxyLocalStats
              bind 127.0.0.1:8080 name localstats
              […]
              frontend httpWEBSites
              bind 127.0.0.1:8080 name 127.0.0.1:8080 
              […]

              Should your stats and a live frontend really be bound to the same port? Try moving the stats to port 2200. HAProxy may be smart enough to do the right thing there, but it's better not to tempt fate.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                @gjurriens:

                Max SSL Diffe-Hellman size: 2018

                Is that a typo? That should probably be 2048. Otherwise it seems sane.

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  Here is my basic test setup that works OK:

                  # Automaticaly generated, dont edit manually.
                  # Generated on: 2017-05-08 15:05
                  global
                  	maxconn			1000
                  	stats socket /tmp/haproxy.socket level admin
                  	uid			80
                  	gid			80
                  	nbproc			1
                  	chroot			/tmp/haproxy_chroot
                  	daemon
                  	tune.ssl.default-dh-param	2048
                  	server-state-file /tmp/haproxy_server_state
                  
                  listen HAProxyLocalStats
                  	bind 127.0.0.1:2200 name localstats
                  	mode http
                  	stats enable
                  	stats admin if TRUE
                  	stats uri /haproxy/haproxy_stats.php?haproxystats=1
                  	timeout client 5000
                  	timeout connect 5000
                  	timeout server 5000
                  
                  frontend doc-front
                  	bind			0.0.0.0:4443 name 0.0.0.0:4443 ssl  crt /var/etc/haproxy/doc-front.pem  
                  	mode			http
                  	log			global
                  	option			http-keep-alive
                  	timeout client		30000
                  	default_backend doc-back_http_ipvANY
                  
                  backend doc-back_http_ipvANY
                  	mode			http
                  	log			global
                  	timeout connect		30000
                  	timeout server		30000
                  	retries			3
                  	option			httpchk GET / 
                  	server			doctor 10.20.0.10:80 check inter 1000  
                  
                  

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                    gjurriens
                    last edited by

                    @jimp:

                    @gjurriens:

                    Max SSL Diffe-Hellman size: 2018

                    Is that a typo? That should probably be 2048. Otherwise it seems sane.

                    Yeah, it was a typo  :-\

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                      lebernd
                      last edited by

                      I searched my log files from the long saturday night - the only message that I could find related and suspect are problems before reboot like

                      2017-05-06 23:40:30	Error (3)	PHP-CGI rc.initial.reboot: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/haproxy.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was 'Stopping haproxy. Waiting for PIDS: 76571\. Stopping haproxy. No matching processes were found'
                      

                      My config is running fine after degrading to 1.7.2 - it's a very basic setup with two backends online and ssl/https frontend with sni.

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                        ringo
                        last edited by

                        I reproduced the issue on a fresh install. It seems that there is a problem with DNS resolvers of haproxy.

                        1. Install a fresh pfSense 2.3.4-RELEASE (amd64)
                        2. Install haproxy from package manager
                        3. Add a backend with your favourite web server
                        3. Add a HTTP frontend, listen to any:8080, set the default backend.
                        4. Check Enable HAProxy, Maximum connections: 500, Internal stats port: 2200
                        5. In the DNS servers section: click new server, Name: local, DNSserver:127.0.0.1, DNSport:53
                        6. Apply changes.
                        7. HAProxy looks like up and running.
                        8. Setup firewall rules and visit port 8080 / 2200. No response.
                        9. Visit haproxy stats page few times, and webConfigurator should hang now.

                        –
                        EDIT: amd64.

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          OK, that I can reproduce on 2.3.4 and 2.4. The key is having the DNS resolver configured inside haproxy. It appears to get hung up attempting to query the UNIX socket for stats. Even if I try to hit that manually, it never receives a response. If I start haproxy manually in the foreground (Disable daemon mode), the stats command succeeds.

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                            cjbujold
                            last edited by

                            I can also confirm that if I remove the DNS entries in Haproxy it no longer hangs pfsense.  However, it is still not routing the calls to any internal server.  I presume the daemon issue still exist.

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                              ringo
                              last edited by

                              @cjbujold:

                              However, it is still not routing the calls to any internal server.

                              Does it show a 503 service unavailable error?

                              –-
                              EDIT: Could you try disabling ssl offloading (if enabled) and see if it work or not?

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                                cjbujold
                                last edited by

                                Got it to work, Had a typo (SSL) and once fixed everything seems to work like normal as long as I do not add any DNS entries into haproxy.

                                Thanks for all the help, much appreciated.

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  FYI- Same problem with haproxy 1.7.4 on plain FreeBSD, so not specific to our package. I did just copy over the config and adjust though, so it could be in one of the directives there but nothing seems obvious yet. Still trying things out.

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    Same problem with 1.7.5 also on FreeBSD.

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      OK, I reported the issue upstream and I have a lead on fixing our local copy until they can work on a fix. Won't be long now, at least for a temporary fix.

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        New version of HAProxy is up which has the problematic commits removed. Works OK here with resolvers configured in HAProxy.

                                        Update and give it a try.

                                        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7533

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                                          ringo
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you @jimp for the update, it works great for me!

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            @Cow:

                                            Thank you @jimp for the update, it works great for me!

                                            Thank YOU for finding the way to reproduce it!  ;D

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