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      ramikilany @Gertjan
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      @gertjan Could be the files are corrupted?

      I restarted the pfSense with the option Reboot with Filesystem Check and every thing is good and no error was found while rebooting.

      Still have the sudden stop of the DNS unbound, tried the pkg upgrade -fy unbound and testing the problem if it persist.

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        ramikilany @thegenius21
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        @thegenius21 I did it now and testing if the problem still exist. thank you dear.

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          Gertjan @ramikilany
          last edited by Gertjan

          @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

          Could be the files are corrupted?

          Well, its open source.
          Compare the source with what your have ^^

          Or execute :

          md5 < IPv6.php
          

          I got

          2a7701126aae53348b3a1ddd17f745e4
          

          The file size is ok, though.

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

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            ramikilany @Gertjan
            last edited by

            @gertjan 2a7701126aae53348b3a1ddd17f745e4

            same as yours, this message happens directly after the pfblockerng latest update, btw i have the same setup in the cloud (proxmox vm) and all works well. the only difference between them is the vm image has Hardware Checksum Offloading and others checked in the Advanced Networking, too annoying problem :(

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              Gertjan @ramikilany
              last edited by Gertjan

              @ramikilany

              There might be a way to get rid of the errors.

              This file : /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php is probably the start of the PHP section that builds the web page that users see when they try to visit a DNSBL blocked page.

              I see mow the issue. That is, when I visit https://pfsense.me.net/pfblockerng/www/ manually it hit the error right away.

              I advise you all to disable that web server that shows the DNS blocked page as it is rather useless, and very soon it won't work anyway.
              ( because of the MITM concepts, TLS, how https works, your browser won't show that page any more, etc etc )

              So :

              9d96575c-9c48-4762-981a-05e7358325b5-image.png

              and done.

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

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                ramikilany @Gertjan
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                @gertjan I did what you said and also restarted the firewall same Crash report

                Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

                amd64
                12.2-STABLE
                FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE d48fb226319(devel-12) pfSense

                Crash report details:

                PHP Errors:
                [02-Mar-2021 14:13:18 Asia/Beirut] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /etc/inc/util.inc:680
                Stack trace:
                #0 /etc/inc/util.inc(657): is_ipaddrv6('pagead2.googles...')
                #1 /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/www/index.php(59): is_ipaddr('pagead2.googles...')
                #2 {main}
                thrown in /etc/inc/util.inc on line 680

                No FreeBSD crash data found.

                Could we do something else?

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                  ramikilany
                  last edited by

                  and in your opinion what is the solution of the following log entry in the DNS Resolver

                  filterdns 37490 (PID) failed to resolve host xxx will retry later again.

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                    Gertjan @ramikilany
                    last edited by

                    @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                    failed to resolve

                    When unbound fails, it stops. Resolving stops. For your LAN based device and any process on pfSense itself. filterdns is just one of such processes.

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

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                      ramikilany @Gertjan
                      last edited by

                      @gertjan after a while the message does not appear again, till now it is the solution.

                      already thank you for your patience and for this great solution.

                      Thumbs Up.

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                        ramikilany @Gertjan
                        last edited by

                        @gertjan how may I troubleshoot the failure of the unbound service? To know how to fix this issue if you cloud help me again.

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                          Gertjan @ramikilany
                          last edited by

                          @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                          how may I troubleshoot the failure of the unbound service?

                          The issue at the top isn't a unbound issue but a pfBlockerNG issue.
                          Something (some one) is hitting the PFB "block page". Who is it ? (hint : look in the logs ....)
                          De activate this page as stated above.
                          Or de active DNSBL - dooes that help ?

                          Btw : you are not using unbound in the default mode, you forward to Google & co.
                          That complicates things.

                          Unbound uist run in resolver mode for pfBlockerNG to work.

                          This one :

                          @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                          filterdns 48934 failed to resolve host pt1 will retry later again

                          is also not real an error.
                          "pt1" isn't valid hos name.

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

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                            ramikilany @Gertjan
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                            @gertjan

                            How may I use the unbound in the default mode? what is the best practice to set up the forward servers ( not Google for example) and the solution that you have posted above works with me (Null Block)

                            Kindly if you can describe how that the unbound must run in resolver mode for pfBlockerNG to works perfectly

                            NB: pt1 is a computer name in my domain network.

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                              Gertjan @ramikilany
                              last edited by

                              @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                              Kindly if you can describe how that the unbound must run in resolver mode for pfBlockerNG to works perfectly

                              As already mentioned : use the default settings.
                              They work.

                              @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                              NB: pt1 is a computer name in my domain network.

                              Should be a fully qualified : like "pt1.local.tld". That way, unbound will know it's local, can resolve it directly, and won't send it to Google or OpenDNS, as these can't know what you have in your LAN anyway.

                              @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                              what is the best practice to set up the forward servers

                              The best way to use forward servers is : not using them. You don't need them (they need you and do not pay you for it ....)

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

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                                Gertjan @ramikilany
                                last edited by

                                @ramikilany said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                                [02-Mar-2021 09:14:55 Asia/Beirut] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /etc/inc/util.inc:680

                                The solution :

                                https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/8b27bcf00d06eeeed4e2ea5a5fdc23edf1b4ba23

                                look at the bottom of the page :

                                12cf70ad-245b-456b-bcdd-fcc56c7dd80d-image.png

                                Works :

                                d9e4d975-94a5-4778-b638-6327419be44a-image.png

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

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                                  ramikilany
                                  last edited by

                                  @Gertjan

                                  Great and professional support from a super great man. Thank you for your help.

                                  👍

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                                    ramikilany
                                    last edited by

                                    The DNS unbound sudden stop still exict, some times it work with just restart the DNS resolver unbound service and sometime I need to reboot the pfsense firewall.

                                    When it stops the internet connection goes from the network and every thing stops working.

                                    How may I fix this critical issue?

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                                      Gertjan @ramikilany
                                      last edited by Gertjan

                                      @ramikilany

                                      What pfSense version ?

                                      See, for example, here : https://forum.netgate.com/topic/115482/frequent-unbound-restarts/79 about how to post the details so the issue can be seen right away.

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

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                                        ramikilany @Gertjan
                                        last edited by

                                        @gertjan said in DNS Resolver sudden stop and filterdns PID 48934:

                                        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/115482/frequent-unbound-restarts/79

                                        Version 2.5.0-RELEASE (amd64)
                                        built on Tue Feb 16 08:56:29 EST 2021
                                        FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE

                                        and now it stops here is the log line:
                                        Mar 4 11:10:42 unbound 13528 [13528:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.13.1).

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                                          ramikilany
                                          last edited by

                                          when go to Diagnostics and DNS lookup and test google.com for example it shows this result:

                                          Timings
                                          Name server Query time
                                          127.0.0.1 No response
                                          172.16.99.1 1 msec

                                          the local DNS is stooped and not responding

                                          this happens now every 2 hours

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                                          • GertjanG
                                            Gertjan @ramikilany
                                            last edited by

                                            Cool.
                                            lol :

                                            unbound stopped.
                                            and it said it stopped.

                                            That what you are telling.

                                            More details are needed.

                                            Please, read https://forum.netgate.com/topic/115482/frequent-unbound-restarts/79

                                            You will find logs - and you can (have to) compare with other logs.

                                            So, when, you find :

                                            Mar 4 11:10:42 unbound 13528 [13528:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.13.1).
                                            

                                            in the resolver log, you can see in the other logs who tolled it to do so.

                                            Like :

                                            Mar  4 11:10:42 pfSense dhcpleases[3459]: Sending HUP signal to dns daemon(13528)
                                            

                                            Process 13528 is unbound.

                                            Btw : dhcpleases doesn't stop unbound, it restarts unbound.

                                            No process will stop unbound, except you in the GUI.

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

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