Intermittent Internet Outages daily
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I'm not really sure where to start with this or where is the most appropriate to post this cry for help, but this seems to have plagued my internet for years now in some form or another. My Isp has been problematic and some blame is on them but I think part of the blame can be on my pfsense setup. Not entirely sure what to post to provide the best context as I've just reverted back to 22.05 as the issues seemed to be not as prevalent.
I seem to have high latency and or packet loss hourly, it used to happen during pfsense reloading my unbound? and it seems to happen less with pfblockerng disabled. I tried setting my lease renewals to be longer and that helped but still had issues. I have not made all of the troubleshooting changes I did after reverting but from logs it seems to be so many things that pop up and I was chasing them down 1 by 1 to see if they were fixable or common occurances but it just felt like I was never "solving" anything just cleaning up my log.
I disabled the wan gate monitoring actions as that seemed to help and was the first thing I've done since as well as disabling some ipv6 stuff that was enabled even though we do not use ipv6 in anyway.
I'm not entirely sure which logs are relevant to post so to not spam post more logs if anyone has any suggestions on what might be helpful to look at I can respond with any screenshots of settings or logs. This was my most recent issues after not having any since I rolled back 6 or so hours ago and it seems as I've started writing this post I haven't had anymore. I'd rather not but I know the clear thing to do would be to fresh install and slowly add things in until I have an issue again, but these issues seemed to have come out of nowhere without any major changes other than updating to 23.01.
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@deceived If you have DHCP lease registration on then unbound restarts at each renewal. You mention pfBlocker; did you have large lists to read in?
Since you mention 23.01, if you are using DNS forwarding (in Resolver) uncheck DNSSEC. It’s expected to cause failures when forwarding and it seems much more common in 23.01. If that doesn’t help disable DNS over TLS. There is a long “Quad9” thread about this with multiple DNS providers.
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@steveits I was using DHCP lease registration but turned that off as the unbound restarting was problematic. I'm not entirely sure if my pfblocker list would be considered large it does take a bit to reload whenever it does.
I turned off DNSSEC after seeing some posts about it causing issues in 23.01. I have not tried disabling DNS over TLS.