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    Poor performance with 2.4.1

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • DerelictD
      Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
      last edited by

      ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

      Not responding at all. check the config on whatever

      <address removed="">is. Make sure you can reach that. Make sure that query is not blocked by firewall rules, etc etc etc</address>

      Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
      A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
      DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
      Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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      • JKnottJ
        JKnott
        last edited by

        @Derelict:

        ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

        Not responding at all. check the config on whatever

        <address removed="">is. Make sure you can reach that. Make sure that query is not blocked by firewall rules, etc etc etc
        </address>

        That

        <address removed="">is the public address for the LAN side of my firewall.  Since I can get to the Internet through pfSense, I can certainly reach it, access the configuration etc..
        </address>

        PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
        i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
        UniFi AC-Lite access point

        I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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        • JKnottJ
          JKnott
          last edited by

          Do you also use in "General DNS Resolver Options" Network Interfaces :: "All" and Outgoing Network Interfaces :: "All" ?

          I have WAN selected for outgoing and everything but WAN for the LAN side.

          PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
          i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
          UniFi AC-Lite access point

          I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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          • JKnottJ
            JKnott
            last edited by

            @haleakalas:

            @JKnott : What is your RTT and RTTsd values under WAN Gateway? Have you seen any significant change from version 234 to 241?
            If you have a spare disk with your 234 backup copy and you can swap between 234 and 241 you can quickly get to the bottom of the speed issue.

            I have never checked RTT etc., so I don't know what they were before.  However, as I mentioned in another note, pfSense is flat out failing to resolve external addresses, but appears to be OK for local.

            PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
            i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
            UniFi AC-Lite access point

            I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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            • DerelictD
              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
              last edited by

              I have WAN selected for outgoing and everything but WAN for the LAN side.

              Just select All and All and try again. It sounds like you are not actually listening on the address you are specifying.

              Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
              A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
              DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
              Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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              • JKnottJ
                JKnott
                last edited by

                The service status shows DNS Resolver stopped and I can't start it.

                The log has several lines of "Oct 30 16:18:37 unbound 95941:0 error: can't bind socket: Can't assign requested address for fe80::214:d1ff:fe2b:edea".  That's the link local address for my WAN port.

                PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                UniFi AC-Lite access point

                I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                • JKnottJ
                  JKnott
                  last edited by

                  @Derelict:

                  I have WAN selected for outgoing and everything but WAN for the LAN side.

                  Just select All and All and try again. It sounds like you are not actually listening on the address you are specifying.

                  That seems to have it working.  Why would this change between versions?

                  PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                  i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                  UniFi AC-Lite access point

                  I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                  • H
                    hda
                    last edited by

                    @JKnott:

                    I have WAN selected for outgoing and everything but WAN for the LAN side.

                    Finally I found the Resolver corresponding settings which work perfect, fast and no errors in Log.

                    For me I have set with GUI:
                    Network Interfaces: LAN, OPT1, OPT2, Localhost
                    Outgoing Network Interfaces: Localhost

                    In unbound.conf that is correctly found as:

                    Interface IP(s) to bind to

                    interface: 192.168.1.1
                    interface: 2001::####:1::1
                    interface: 10.8.4.1
                    interface: 192.168.22.1
                    interface: 2001:
                    :####:3::1
                    interface: 127.0.0.1
                    interface: ::1

                    Outgoing interfaces to be used

                    outgoing-interface: 127.0.0.1
                    outgoing-interface: ::1

                    Besides this, the "All & All" works too, but you probably don't want listening on WAN ;)

                    My setup in 2.4.1 (upgraded from 2.4.0) about DNS:

                    • No Forwarding with Resolver
                    • Nothing set or checked for DNS in [System > General Setup]
                    • No other DNS config for DHCP(6) servers || RA
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                    • JKnottJ
                      JKnott
                      last edited by

                      ^^^^
                      I'll give those a try.  DNS through pfSense has now failed completely.

                      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                      i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                      UniFi AC-Lite access point

                      I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                      • JKnottJ
                        JKnott
                        last edited by

                        Didn't work.  I still have complete DNS failure with pfSense.  I cannot resolve either Internet or local host names.  Something is clearly messed up here.  Is there any way to revert back to 2.4.0?

                        PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                        i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                        UniFi AC-Lite access point

                        I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                        • K
                          kejianshi
                          last edited by

                          For a test.  Disable resolver and enable forwarder.  See what happens.

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                          • JKnottJ
                            JKnott
                            last edited by

                            @kejianshi:

                            For a test.  Disable resolver and enable forwarder.  See what happens.

                            That appears to work, though I no longer have the local hosts available through it.

                            PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                            i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                            UniFi AC-Lite access point

                            I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                            • K
                              kejianshi
                              last edited by

                              Yeah - I'm having the same troubles on both a pfsense vm and opnsense vm.  In vmware with a private IP at wan.

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                              • JKnottJ
                                JKnott
                                last edited by

                                If there isn't a fix for the resolver soon, I'll have to copy all my local devices into the forwarder.

                                PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                                UniFi AC-Lite access point

                                I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                                • K
                                  kejianshi
                                  last edited by

                                  I think its a resolver specific issue and it will be fixed.  til then, I like your fix.

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                                  • DerelictD
                                    Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    No idea what you guys are doing. Resolver works fine in 2.4.1.

                                    Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                    A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                    DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                    Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                    • JKnottJ
                                      JKnott
                                      last edited by

                                      @Derelict:

                                      No idea what you guys are doing. Resolver works fine in 2.4.1.

                                      I updated to 2.4.1.  I guess I shouldn't have done that.

                                      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                      i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                                      UniFi AC-Lite access point

                                      I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                                      • DerelictD
                                        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        Resolver works fine.

                                        Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                        A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                        DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                        Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                        • JKnottJ
                                          JKnott
                                          last edited by

                                          @Derelict:

                                          Resolver works fine.

                                          I just tried again and resolver does not work.  Forwarder does.  I have been using resolver almost since I started using pfSense 1.5 years ago but it now fails.

                                          PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                          i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                                          UniFi AC-Lite access point

                                          I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                                          • K
                                            kejianshi
                                            last edited by

                                            In my case, I think its something in the network at this one place giving unbound trouble.  I haven't seen this anywhere else.  Since in my case, its just for testing I didn't worry about it much.  However in this 1 location both opnsense and pfsense had resolver issues, so I turned it off.

                                            Went with dnsmasq on opnsense and forwarder on pfsense and suddenly it all worked.  I think its something strange going on with the machine hosting the VMs in my case because this only happened in one place.

                                            The only things odd about this install is its in vmware and the IP on the WAN is private.  Like I said…  For testing only, so no public on this one.  Other than that, its vanilla as can be.

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