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    PIA OpenVPN unstable after 2.5 upgrade

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    • aaronsshA
      aaronssh
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      I use Private Internet Access VPN (PIA) with my pfSense router as the client, have been for 6 years now. It has always been rock solid. But since upgrading to 2.5 I am seeing what appears to be pfSense losing its ability to route to the VPN intermittently.

      What happens is that the VPN stays up and says it is connected, but I can no longer get to any websites. The router can still ping out to the outside, but I can not. The only thing that fixes this is to restart the OpenVPN service on pfSense and then suddenly all works perfectly again for a few hours.

      I don't even know where to start on this one. VPN is staying up and no errors in the log -- so what is pfSense doing that I can't get to any websites until restarting OpenVPN?

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      • aaronsshA
        aaronssh @aaronssh
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        I was able to further trace this to Unbound DNS Resolver. Unbound is frequently stopped, and restarting OpenVPN restarts Unbound. So this is not an OpenVPN issue but is an Unbound issue.

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