HE Tunnel Problem
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what is exactly not working with mail.yahoo.com? Are you trying to send smtp? pickup mail pop3, imap? I can ping mail.yahoo.com with your 1405 setting without any issue. Hit that via http/https?
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.local.lan]/root: ping6 -s 1405 -d mail.yahoo.com
PING6(1453=40+8+1405 bytes) 2001:470:1f10:9c4::2 –> 2001:4998:44:a10::50
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=22.240 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=29.972 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=21.996 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=3 hlim=56 time=21.842 ms
^CUsing my HE tunnel.
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what is exactly not working with mail.yahoo.com? Are you trying to send smtp? pickup mail pop3, imap? I can ping mail.yahoo.com with your 1405 setting without any issue. Hit that via http/https?
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.local.lan]/root: ping6 -s 1405 -d mail.yahoo.com
PING6(1453=40+8+1405 bytes) 2001:470:1f10:9c4::2 –> 2001:4998:44:a10::50
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=22.240 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=29.972 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=21.996 ms
1413 bytes from 2001:4998:44:a10::50, icmp_seq=3 hlim=56 time=21.842 ms
^CUsing my HE tunnel.
I can ping and traceroute -4 -6 no problem, but if I try to open the website, it times out. If I disable ipv6 on pfsense or on the pc, it works fine. It makes no difference whether I'm using IE11, edge or chrome on a pc. Also doesn't work using chrome, gmail app or yahoo mail app on an android phone unless ipv6 is disabled in pfsense. This problem started just over a month ago. I think the problem seems to effect mail.yahoo.com, *.mail.yahoo.com and login.yahoo.com. I've exchanged email with hurricane electric, but they have no idea what could be causing it. If I do a traceroute, only 2/10 hops are on he.net. Hops 4-10 are on yahoo.com. I don't have this problem using my dual-stack vpn or using dual-stack native ipv6 with pfsense 2.4. The problem is only when the tunnel is enabled.
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I posted about this again on the tunnelbroker forum. The response was it works for me, so it must be software (i.e., pfsense). Waiting for the fix to bug 5993 so I can finally switch everything over to native ipv6…
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Well clearly is NOT pfsense because I am using pfsense with a HE tunnel. And not having any issues connecting to yahoo mail. I do not use it - but I do have an account from years back for something. So Just logged in via ipv6.
You can see clearly browser showing its connected via ipv6. Do you want me to disable ipv4 on the machine and check it that way as well?
edit: So here I disabled ipv4 on my client. Still accessing it, only connectivity on my client is ipv6 using HE tunnel through pfsense..
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Thanks for posting. It confirms what I thought, which is that there is no problem with pfsense. If it's not the clients, pfsense or the tunnel, all that's left is yahoo. It's probably a yahoo issue, but they have no customer support so there little or no chance they will look into this or do anything. I guess the only choice I have is to switch over to 2.4 even though it's not fully baked. Or is it possible to block access to mail.yahoo.com using ipv6 in the firewall?
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FWIW mail.yahoo.com hangs for me too on HE tunnel but not on centurylink native. Haven't has time to look at it further and, after all, who needs ANOTHER reason not to use yahoo mail?
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FWIW mail.yahoo.com hangs for me too on HE tunnel but not on centurylink native. Haven't has time to look at it further and, after all, who needs ANOTHER reason not to use yahoo mail?
Haha, I hear you. I have several yahoo mail users complaining about this. Unfortunately, this is one of those examples of "old habits die hard."
