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      Finduilas
      last edited by Finduilas

      Hello

      At the beginning, I thought that the reason was squid / squidquard (blocking website's).
      But after disabling this packages the problem still occurs.

      Even after removing the packages now, there is no difference.
      So there should be another reason. I don't know why, that's the reason why I posted it in General.

      Also tested: I can access the website on a VPN connection...

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      • kiokomanK
        kiokoman LAYER 8
        last edited by kiokoman

        could be a dns problem, what are you using as dns ? do you have another pc to try on the same lan?

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        • GertjanG
          Gertjan
          last edited by

          Also a VPN ?

          It's time to detail your setup.

          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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            Finduilas @kiokoman
            last edited by

            @kiokoman
            DNS server(s)
            127.0.0.1
            195.130.130.5
            195.130.131.5
            10.0.0.10
            195.130.130.11

            10.0.0.10 is our local DNS-server
            195.130.130.11 is the DNS of our provider.

            Allow DNS servers to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN is Enabled
            That's the reason why 195.130.130.5 & 195.130.131.5 is enabled.

            @Gertjan Not a VPN on the router, I used another VPN to check if it's accessible from outside the problemnetwork. What else do you need to know?

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            • GertjanG
              Gertjan
              last edited by Gertjan

              DNS resolution works well on pfSense ( use SSH or console access to test ).
              Same thing for LAN devices ?

              Btw : p3 is out for a while now.

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              • kiokomanK
                kiokoman LAYER 8
                last edited by

                try to set 8.8.8.8 as dns on your network interface as a test

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                  Finduilas
                  last edited by

                  @Gertjan I don't understand the question... (Same thing for LAN devices ?)

                  • I updated now to P3.

                  @kiokoman

                  • I changed the DNS-servers. They are now:
                    127.0.0.1
                    8.8.8.8
                    10.0.0.10

                  Still not fixed..

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    So squid is not installed, and you can still not resolve?

                    Out of the box pfsense "resolves" it doesn't forward.. Can pfsense resolve site your trying to go to?

                    Are you forwarding to 10.0.0.10 - why would that be on your list of dns?

                    Do a simple test on pfsense, can it resolve say google?

                    lookup.png

                    Once you have validated pfsense can resolve, then you need to check if client is asking pfsense for dns, and does it resolve?

                    $ nslookup www.google.com
                    Server:  sg4860.local.lan
                    Address:  192.168.9.253
                    
                    Non-authoritative answer:
                    Name:    www.google.com
                    Addresses:  2607:f8b0:4009:816::2004
                              172.217.9.68
                    

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                      Finduilas
                      last edited by Finduilas

                      I get this as result for DNS lookup on the pfsense for the problemdomain:

                      91.*.*.235	A
                      
                      127.0.0.1	0 msec
                      8.8.8.8	17 msec
                      10.0.0.10	32 msec
                      

                      When I do an nslookup, I get this:

                      nslookup google.com
                      Server:  UnKnown
                      Address:  10.0.0.10
                      
                      Non-authoritative answer:
                      Name:    google.com
                      Addresses:  2a00:1450:400e:80e::200e
                            216.58.208.110
                      
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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                        last edited by johnpoz

                        What is this 10.0.0.10, so your forwarding not resolving..

                        Did you setup some vpn client? Did you mess with your outbound nat?

                        Clients are using pfsense as their gateway? Do a simple traceroute from your clients to an outside IP.. Can you ping say 8.8.8.8 from your clients?

                        What are you lan rules on pfsense?

                        $ tracert -d 8.8.8.8
                        
                        Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
                        
                          1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.9.253
                          2    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  50.4.132.1
                          3    18 ms     9 ms    10 ms  76.73.191.106
                          4     8 ms    19 ms    10 ms  76.73.164.142
                          5    22 ms    13 ms    12 ms  76.73.164.154
                        

                        As you there from my client, its first hop is pfsense, and then next hop is outside to isp..

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                          Finduilas
                          last edited by

                          Yes, the gateway is the ip of the PFsense (10.0.0.254).

                          I can ping and has this as a result for tracert of 8.8.8.8

                          Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
                          
                            1     1 ms     1 ms     4 ms  10.0.0.254
                            2    24 ms    12 ms    11 ms  81.83.0.1
                            3    10 ms    19 ms    13 ms  213.224.201.81
                            4    15 ms    14 ms    15 ms  213.224.250.117
                            5    23 ms    16 ms    33 ms  74.125.32.88
                            6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                            7    20 ms    18 ms    17 ms  8.8.8.8
                          
                          Trace complete.
                          

                          And for the problemwebsite this is the result:

                          Tracing route to 235.*.belgacom.be [91.*.*.235] over a maximum of 30 hops:
                          
                            1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.0.0.254
                            2    86 ms    16 ms    11 ms  d51530001.static.telenet.be [81.83.0.1]
                            3    12 ms    11 ms     8 ms  dd5e0c951.access.telenet.be [213.224.201.81]
                            4    15 ms    14 ms    25 ms  dd5e0fa75.access.telenet.be [213.224.250.117]
                            5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                            6    18 ms    16 ms    14 ms  80.84.23.95
                            7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                            8     *       17 ms    17 ms  svc10030.epemar7.isp.proximus.com [91.183.246.197]
                            9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                           10    24 ms    23 ms    34 ms  235.*.belgacom.be [91.*.*.235]
                          

                          I had OpenVPN installed, but not anymore.. I removed it a while ago.
                          Outbound NAT Mode is Automatic.
                          Rules:

                          Automatic Rules:
                          Interface	Source	Source Port	Destination	Destination Port	NAT Address	NAT Port	Static Port	Description
                          WAN	127.0.0.0/8 ::1/128 10.0.0.0/16	*	*	500	WAN address	*		Auto created rule for ISAKMP
                          WAN	127.0.0.0/8 ::1/128 10.0.0.0/16	*	*	*	WAN address	*		Auto created rule
                          
                          
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                          • johnpozJ
                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                            last edited by

                            well clearly you leaving pfsense and getting to the wan via trace.

                            So what are you rules on your lan?

                            Don't understand the use of /16 for your local network - do you have 65K clients? But that is not going to be cause of your problem.

                            Is your browser still pointing to proxy? From your traceroute and your able to resolve.

                            So lets be clear is this ALL websites or just 1 or a couple?

                            And for the problemwebsite

                            That would indicate to me its just 1 site?

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                              Finduilas
                              last edited by Finduilas

                              I will post the rules on Monday. (no remote accesss).

                              /16 is a gift from the past (schoolnetwork that grow very fast). For the moment we have +- 500 devices).
                              Of record: The whole network should be reconfigured. It's a work in progress, but not yet possible, as it is in use most of the time and I'm the only IT'er.

                              The problem is with "some" websites. Most of the time we didn't notice it (thinking it's a bad website), but this time it is the website of an important supplier. So we need this website every day.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                @Finduilas said in Website won't load: operation timed out:

                                "browser time out" error.

                                That doesn't seem like DNS unless it's resolving wrong. Assuming that really is the error seen on clients.

                                But yeah still unclear what clients are using for DNS here; is it pfSense?

                                And what mode pfSense is using for DNS; is it using the DNS Forwarder? The DNS Resolver in forwading mode or the default Resolver settings?

                                Steve

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                                • johnpozJ
                                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  @Finduilas said in Website won't load: operation timed out:

                                  but this time it is the website of an important supplier.

                                  But you are resolving this website to its IP.. So unless that is wrong? And your accessing other websites, and your not using proxy or ips.. How would the issue be related to pfsense?

                                  Since on pfsense wan when you try and access this site - does pfsense sense the syn out its wan, what do you get back - if anything?

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                                    Finduilas
                                    last edited by

                                    Picture of LAN-rules:
                                    router.jpg

                                    DNS-server 10.0.0.10 is an Windows Server. But the PFSense router is "new", configured by someone else (can't get in touch anymore).

                                    DNS-resolver was enabled, default settings (normally, see screenshots). DNS forwarding is disabled.
                                    dns-resolver-1.JPG dns-resolver-2.JPG dns-resolver-3.JPG dns-resolver-4.JPG dns-resolver-5.JPG

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                                    • GertjanG
                                      Gertjan
                                      last edited by Gertjan

                                      LAN rules :
                                      The second rule is overlapped by the third rule - remove that second rule, because it's TCP only, thus very strange at best.
                                      Rule 3 and 4 - the last 2 - handle all traffic just fine.

                                      @Finduilas said in Website won't load: operation timed out:

                                      DNS forwarding is disabled.

                                      So pfSense doesn't use 10.0.0.10 to resolve. It goes directly to "the source".
                                      Are you using DHCP on your LAN ? How is the DNS setup on your LAN clients ? Static ? By DHCP ? Check the DHCP server page : what is the DNS to hand over to LAN clients (if set) ?

                                      Btw : why suing this local "10.0.0.10" DNS server (which probably forwards to again another DNS server, or it resolves directly, as pfSense does )?

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                      • johnpozJ
                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Again - if you can resolve it, and just doesn't answer.. Unless your using proxy or ips.. pfsense not going to be doing anything different with traffic going there vs going to google.com

                                        I would do a packet capture to prove to yourself pfsense is sending on your syn or not to the site.. There is nothing in your setup that you have shown that would stop one site over another site.

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          If you're using Squid/Squidguard you should really make sure both Squid and clients coming through it are using the same DNS server(s). If you are handing 10.0.0.10 to clients to use you should set that in Squid also.

                                          However that would not explain why it still fails with Squid disabled. I agree I think a packet capture showing the failed connection would be the next step here.

                                          Steve

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                                          • johnpozJ
                                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                            last edited by johnpoz

                                            @Finduilas said in Website won't load: operation timed out:

                                            10 24 ms 23 ms 34 ms 235..belgacom.be [91..*.235]

                                            He seems to be able to trace there, so unless he is running proxy or ips - its not going to be pfsense issue.. Maybe a mtu problem getting there?

                                            Might be helpful if actually posted the site fqdn.. So we could test it even.. What is the big deal about posting some public site on the internet... If I had problem going to say www.cnn.com how would saying I can not get to www.cnn.com be any sort of privacy concern? Unless this is some sort of p0rn site or something you don't want anyone knowing you visit ;)

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