pfSense web GUI very slow load on home page
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You do not want to check the box that says Disable DNS Forwarder on the GENERAL SETUP screen. Since you are running DNS Resolver, you may as well let pfSense use it to perform external lookups for the firewall itself.
It may be that your internal AD servers are having issues resolving the pfSense update services. Unusual if that is the case. Try unchecking that checkbox I mentioned, save and apply the changes and then reboot the firewall for good measure.
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One last question that may seem obvious, but I have to ask it. Your FQDN in your DNS server for your pfSense installation is: pfSense.ad.purgrips.com
Is that the correct FQDN entry in your DNS server?
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@bmeeks That is what it is, thank you very much for your help there, I was wondering about that but I was a little nervous to uncheck that but that fixed it. Thank you for your help.
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@tantan5e said in pfSense web GUI very slow load on home page:
@bmeeks That is what it is, thank you very much for your help there, I was wondering about that but I was a little nervous to uncheck that but that fixed it. Thank you for your help.
Glad it's fixed for you. That box tells pfSense whether or not it should use its own internal DNS server for lookups or if it should only forward everything to the server (or servers) configured in the DNS box. In your case, with the box checked, pfSense would be trying to get your internal DNS servers to do all the lookups instead of using the DNS Resolver built into pfSense. For some reason forwarding is not working correctly. Your internal DNS servers should be able to resolve the pfSense update services if they can resolve other external web sites. You may still want to investigate why that is.
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I'm very sorry for resurrecting this thread - but this thread is mostly the first hit you find if you google for something like "pfsense slow login" or "slow dashboard" and for me it initially did not help, checking my DNS-settings.
after hours looking for a solution I stumbled over this reddit post - https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/lmubku/comment/gtj41yl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
disabled "firewall logs" widget - and dashboard now loads fast and login is also fast. The strange thing is, that I have another machine with a virtual pfsense installed (pretty much same hardware - cpu, ram, disk) and had the dashboard equally configured (and mostly all other settings are equal too) where this long loading issue did not happen.
