Can't load certain websites

itsadamslife

I cannot access certain domains (ex: google.com) from my network. I can perform a traceroute and ping to google.com from within my network but when trying to load google.com I get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. I am also having trouble with my Google Home devices connecting as well. There are a few other websites that I'm having issues with as well. I have looked through logs and cannot identify anything that could be blocking these connections. I have enabled and disabled different rules as well as pfBlocker and Suricata to locate a cause without any luck.

The weird thing is that if I connect to a VPN, I can access the websites without a problem. I am at a loss. I am not a networking or pfSense pro by any means.

Thanks for your help!

Gertjan

@itsadamslife said in Can't load certain websites:

I am not a networking or pfSense pro by any means.

and in the same phrase you said :

@itsadamslife said in Can't load certain websites:

different rules as well as pfBlocker and Suricata

I have a fast and simple solution for you.
Use pfSense with default settings. No packages. That is : no packages that 'do things' with your communication to the Internet.
Your problems will be gone, I'm 100 % sure.

It's still possible to use pfBlocker or Suricata .
You should activate one at the time, do the "test-test-test" thing during. every setting you delete, change or add. This way, you know what to undo when google.com goes down.

DaddyGo

The pfSense basically doesn't block google.com, although it might be good :-), but unfortunately there is no alternative instead of google anywhere in the world.
It is only possible that, there is an error in your setup, which can be found with a little time.

What is your output for this?

Gertjan

ping google.com
PING google.com (216.58.204.142): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.58.204.142: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=25.127 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.142: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=25.698 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.142: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=26.130 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.142: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=25.130 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.142: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=25.494 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 25.127/25.516/26.130/0.377 ms

google.com has thousands of IP's - all depend where you are.

DaddyGo

Yeeepp for sure.
I was just curious at all, what do he see directly from the firewall, if he ping the google