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    ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE admin interface

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      tjcooks4829
      last edited by

      But only on one machine. Any machine on the network can access the admin app, except the one I use all day. Very convenient.

      • Most of the ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE conversations I see here relate to Squid – not running Squid

      • I don't have a weird IP address or anything like that

      • DHCP scope does not include the pfSense address

      • I've cleared every cache, tried numerous browsers, same result

      Has anyone else faced & solved this? Thanks so much for any ideas.

      Cheers,
      TJ

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        What packages do you have installed?

        Edit:  Quite a few sites recommend the following series of commands to get past this error:

        ipconfig /release
        ipconfig /all
        ipconfig /flushdns
        ipconfig /renew
        netsh int ip set dns
        netsh winsock reset
        
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          tjcooks4829
          last edited by

          Just Darkstat.  I can access that just fine, now that I look.

          I use all the other services provided by the appliance – NTP, DNS, DHCP, etc.

          I am one rev behind, on 2.3.4-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) but I believe this issue pre-dates that at least a couple updates.

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            I've been here for a few years and I don't recall this being a regular problem.  The fact that it's localized to one specific system tells me it isn't a generic pfSense issue.  Can I assume that you've already tried the commands I listed and they didn't work for you?

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              tjcooks4829
              last edited by

              I did just complete all those commands (and am pretty sure I tried that in the past). No change.

              Agree it's probably not a widespread pfSense bug. Odd that it's just one machine, I can't find evidence of anyone else having the issue, and every other type of connection to that box works fine – it's our DNS server, NTP, DHCP, etc. all that, I SSH into it okay, access Darkstat okay... Network serves a hundred plus users just fine.

              I'm solving it by VNC-ing into a machine that I have installed in the server rack.  Mildly inconvenint, but works.

              Thanks for helping, any other ideas welcome.

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                churchtechguy
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                I don't know if this will help or not but I had similar issues recently with several pfsense firewalls I have deployed.  It ended up being my Bitdefender antivirus on my laptop that was "protecting" me and causing the web gui to come back with the empty response.  I have to either disable the protection now or add all the sites/ips to the safe list to access the firewalls.  Looking for a new A/V software program now too…

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