Updating Dynamic DNS (CloudFlare) causes GUI to crash

mikeisfly

I'm wondering if I'm the only one having this issue, I will explain what is happening. I have a Cloudflare account which I use to update my IP address of my domain. When I click the save and update the GUI will just spin like its working but after a few minutes the connection will timeout (504 Gateway Time-out nginx) and I have to close the tab and open a new tab and reconnect to the GUI. If I go to cloudflare.com I can see that my domains have the new updated IP address so the update feature is working, the issue is the GUI is failing (504 Gateway Time-out nginx). If I click the save and force update button it will spin, then open a new tab right away and put the url of pfsense firewall in the browser it will come up right away then go to the dynamic dns settings it shows the IP addresses in green and everything is all good.

I am running 2.6.0-BETA (amd64)
built on Mon Dec 20 06:22:46 UTC 2021
FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE

Hope I was clear in describing the issue. Should be easy to recreate.

mikeisfly

@mikeisfly This is what I'm seeing in the logs

2021/12/21 22:09:46 [error] 48036#100196: *628 open() "/usr/local/www/wpad.dat" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.5.72, server: , request: "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/2.0", host: "wpad.mydomain.us:443"

IP address listed is not my IP address, I'm connecting externally and that is not my wan address either. Secondly I'm using https not that port number I just changed it here for trouble shooting. This may be completely unrelated.

Gertjan

@mikeisfly said in Updating Dynamic DNS (CloudFlare) causes GUI to crash:

This may be completely unrelated.

and it is.
Just the pfSense GUI web server telling you it received a file request , and the file didn't exist. Go check the device, and see why it want to have that wpad.dat file.
Throw "what is wpad.dat ?" in your favourite browser and search engine and you get the picture ;)

@mikeisfly said in Updating Dynamic DNS (CloudFlare) causes GUI to crash:

I am running 2.6.0-BETA (amd64)

This is the "stable version of pfSense (current 2.5.2)" part of the forum, not the "bleeding edge - everything breaks all the time" side : pfSense Software Development.

Post your DDNS settings / screen dump (mask user credentials).
This way, develoopers that also use 'cloudfair' can double check on their side = provoke the issue themselves and thus debug it.
Check out the source : code recently changed ?

mikeisfly

@gertjan I'll do that. Thanks