Unable to check for updates

hugoeyng

/root: pfSense-upgrade -dc
>>> Updating repositories metadata...
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Your system is up to date

I found out that disabling a gateway group where the WAN was "Tier 1", and I setup "Never" for one of them, then worked.

I doesn´t mind what of the WAN I use "ner" in the gateway group, since I leave only one of them as "Tier 1".

hugoeyng

@stephenw10 looking a little bit closer, I found out that

If I leave GW_WAN (1) as the the default gateway, it works and, if I leave OPT1GW (2) as default gateway it doesn´t work.

Could be something related too DNS?

stephenw10

Hmm, that's odd. Also nice catch!

Not sure how that only affects the check at the GUI.... Let me dig into it.

What happens if you try running pfSense-upgrade -dc from Diag > Command Prompt when GW2 is default? Does it also fail there? What error does it return?

hugoeyng

@stephenw10

Shell Output - pfSense-upgrade -dc

>>> Updating repositories metadata...
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Your system is up to date

stephenw10

Hmm, and it was showing 'unable to check for updates' on the dashboard at the same time?

hugoeyng

@stephenw10 Yes, it was.

hugoeyng

@stephenw10 Hi. How are you?

Some news?

Tom8

Same behavior here.
In my case the second gateway is WAN_DHCP6.
I have to set the default gateway IPv6 to "none", to reach the update page.
Edit: Forgot to mention after update from 2.6 to 2.7!

stephenw10

Does it work from the command line using either? Like:
pkg-static -d4 update
or
pkg-static -d6 update

You can set the firewall to prefer IPv4 in Sys > Adv > Networking if your system cannot use IPv6 for some reason.

Steve

Tom8

@stephenw10
When WAN_DHCP6 is set as second default Gateway:
From Diagnostics > command prompt : pkg-static -d6 update ends in "504 Gateway Timeout"
From SSH: Same, I stopped it....

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root: pkg-static -d6 update
DBG(1)[4385]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[4385]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[4385]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense-core
DBG(1)[4385]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.txz
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.txz with opts "i6"
pkg-static: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.txz: Operation timed out
repository pfSense-core has no meta file, using default settings
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
pkg-static: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg: Operation timed out
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i6"
pkg-static: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz: Operation timed out
Unable to update repository pfSense-core
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[4385]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense
DBG(1)[4385]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense
DBG(1)[4385]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.txz
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.txz with opts "i6"
pkg-static: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.txz: Operation timed out
repository pfSense has no meta file, using default settings
DBG(1)[4385]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[4385]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[4385]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
^C

From Diagnostics > command prompt : pkg-static -d4 update works
From SSH:

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root: pkg-static -d4 update
DBG(1)[31958]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[31958]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[31958]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[31958]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[31958]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i4"
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[31958]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[31958]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg with opts "i4"
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[31958]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz
DBG(1)[31958]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i4"
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[31958]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense
DBG(1)[31958]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense
DBG(1)[31958]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
DBG(1)[31958]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf
DBG(1)[31958]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf with opts "i4"
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    163 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
DBG(1)[31958]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[31958]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg with opts "i4"
DBG(1)[31958]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
Fetching packagesite.pkg: 100%  155 KiB 159.1kB/s    00:01
DBG(1)[31958]> PkgRepo: extracting packagesite.yaml of repo pfSense
DBG(1)[46734]> PkgRepo: extracting signature of repo in a sandbox
DBG(1)[31958]> Pkgrepo, reading new packagesite.yaml for '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
Processing entries: 100%
pfSense repository update completed. 531 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.

If I turn off the second gateway, everything is running (except IPv6)

"You can set the firewall to prefer IPv4 in Sys > Adv > Networking if your system cannot use IPv6 for some reason." >>>> I know that, Thank you.

stephenw10

There is IPv6 connectivity to the pkg servers:

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.fire.box]/root: pkg -d6 update
DBG(1)[65446]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[65446]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[65446]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg00-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-core/packagesite.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[65446]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense
DBG(1)[65446]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense.sqlite'
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/meta.conf with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.pkg with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
DBG(1)[65446]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.txz
DBG(1)[65446]> opening libfetch fetcher
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch > libfetch: connecting
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetching from: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.txz with opts "i6"
DBG(1)[65446]> Fetch: fetcher chosen: https
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.

So you have some IPv6 connectivity issue at your firewall.

Steve

Tom8

@stephenw10 But I get an IPv6 Adress and I can ping websites with IPv6.

Ping from WAN to ipv6.google.com:

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2axx:xxxx:xxxx::xxxx --> 2a00:1450:4016:80c::200e
16 bytes from 2a00:1450:4016:80c::200e, icmp_seq=0 hlim=119 time=19.106 ms
16 bytes from 2a00:1450:4016:80c::200e, icmp_seq=1 hlim=119 time=22.565 ms
16 bytes from 2a00:1450:4016:80c::200e, icmp_seq=2 hlim=119 time=20.170 ms

--- ipv6.l.google.com ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 19.106/20.614/22.565/1.446 ms

stephenw10

Can you ping the pkg servers though?:

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.fire.box]/root: ping6 pkg01-atx.netgate.com
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a00:23c8:xxxx:xxxx --> 2610:160:11:18::209
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=0 hlim=47 time=115.979 ms
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=1 hlim=47 time=115.111 ms
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=2 hlim=47 time=116.118 ms
^C
--- pkg01-atx.netgate.com ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 115.111/115.736/116.118/0.446 ms

Tom8

@stephenw10 Yes, no problem

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2axx:xxxx:xxxx::xxxx --> 2610:160:11:18::209
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=136.690 ms
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=137.275 ms
16 bytes from 2610:160:11:18::209, icmp_seq=2 hlim=48 time=135.759 ms

--- pkg01-atx.netgate.com ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 135.759/136.575/137.275/0.624 ms

stephenw10

Hmm, curious. You are seeing this consistently? It's not a temporary loading issue at the server end for example? Though I'd expect to see a lot more reports if that was the case.

Maybe an MTU issue in the route?

Can you fetch the file directly?: fetch -6 https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.txz

Tom8

@stephenw10
I noticed this 3 days ago. Also did a fresh installation to be sure, but nothing changed.

Whats the best way to check MTU?

Fetch doesn´t work:

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root: fetch -6 https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.txz
fetch: https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com/pfSense_v2_7_0_amd64-pfSense_v2_7_0/packagesite.txz: Operation timed out

stephenw10

I ran a pcap for IPv6 traffic on WAN whilst running that fetch and could see the full sized packets.

You can test using ping6 though. 1444B is the largest I can send here:
ping6 -s 1444 pkg01-atx.netgate.com

Tom8

@stephenw10
I just realised that when I ping6 from SSH it uses a diferent IPv6 when I ping6 from GUI.

The point is I always used the Ping tool from GUI, which used the WAN IP. 2a02:8070: .....
But with the option -s I have to use SSH, and there the system uses a diferent IP 2a02:3102: ....
The 2a02:3102: .... doesn´t work with Ping6.
Why?

For MTU test used WAN IP and got 1452 max

stephenw10

Ok, so where is that second IP coming from? Which of those is valid?

I imagine that fetch test would also work if you specify the bind address to the other one.

Tom8

@stephenw10
ifconfig igb0 inet6:

igb0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
description: WAN
options=4e120bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,NOMAP>
inet6 fe80::4262:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%igb0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 2a02:3102:xxxx:xx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 2a02:3102:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 2a02:8070:xxxx::xxxx prefixlen 128
inet6 2a02:8070:xxxx:xx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx prefixlen 64
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Found it, but I don´t know what to do