Very slow login to dashboard++

Gertjan

@NollipfSense : when you login, you wind up on the Dashboard.

That page can collect info also from 'the outside'.
If DNS is bad or the the entire Internet connection is 'bad', then things will slow down ... eventually up until time out of the used sub systems like DNS time out ... and the page (Dashboard) gets shown.
What happened could be seen in the (activate all details is settings of the log) system logs, DNS log and others.

What I would do : console/SSH, and tail -f | clog .... the system log and DNS at the same time.
Log into pfSense and inspect the logs real time ...

The subject is known, btw - as are 'broken DNS setups, bad connections, etc'. Take note that our upstream boxes and routers are not equal, neither are our land lines, the DNS's we are using, etc. Even the Netgate servers are somewhat busy these last several hours.
All this is probably temporary.
Btw : the Internet as a whole isn't really as it used to be right know .... strange things are happeing right now, and Netflix shares did not drop last a week. You know why.

kiokoman

some seconds maybe but a minute of delay is symptom of routing problem / connectivity issue.
there are widget that need internet to work like "System information" that check for updates, "gateway monitoring", "rss" and so on
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9677
i'm pretty sure that there are other redmine about it but i was unable to find it right now..

NollipfSense

I hope the OP is still here reading!

Deathmelon

Yes, he is :)

Deathmelon

It's still going slow, but today I got an error message instead of login.

CSRF check failed. Your form session may have expired, or you may not have cookies enabled.

kiokoman

nothing to worry about, just clean the cache/cookies of the browser

bla

@deathmelon Did you ever manage to solve this issue? I've been experiencing exactly the same thing for three days (slow dashboard + slow System/Update pages). I have no clue as to why. Everything is working correctly, no internet issues, DNS working fine. Just slow dashboard and update pages...

Gertjan

@bla said in Very slow login to dashboard++:

no internet issues

for your LAN devices.

@bla said in Very slow login to dashboard++:

Just slow dashboard and update pages...

for pfSense itself I would be less sure ^^

Derelict

This is almost always because the firewall itself is having trouble resolving names.

Resolve something like www.google.com in Diagnostics > DNS Lookup and post the results. Maybe resolve a couple random names that aren't cached.

bla

@derelict Yep, you were right. Ran a DNS Lookup and noticed that one of the DNS servers being used by the firewall had very high latency. Removed it and everything went back to normal. Thanks.

Gertjan

@bla said in Very slow login to dashboard++:

that one of the DNS servers being used

Keep in mind : you don't have to enter during setup any DNS server.
The resolver already knows where the 13 original main 'root' servers are, as these are build into the code.
No need to pas on your DNS info elsewhere.