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    DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208

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    • RobbieTTR
      RobbieTT @stephenw10
      last edited by

      @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

      OK try this. It should apply against the June 10th 25.03 build.

      Applied and testing.

      2025-06-17 08:48:44.587745+01:00	php-fpm	64902	System Patches: Patch applied successfully (ID: 685080088725a, DESCR: PPPoE IPv6 RA Changes 685080088725a for 25.03.b.20250610.1659)
      

      Well, presuming 'applied successfully' means no reboot required?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Yup you shouldn't need a reboot there. The scripts get run at interface events and will have changed after applying the patch.

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        • w0wW
          w0w
          last edited by

          Probably this is not related to the current patch, ... I think this issue has been present since the early 23.05 versions, but I’ve only recently started to understand what’s going on. Sometimes, but not always, when PPPoE disconnects and reconnects, I receive an IPv6 address on the WAN interface, but nothing is assigned on the LAN interface, which is configured as a track interface. After some time, the IPv6 address on the WAN interface also disappears. I’ll try to collect logs later.

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          • RobbieTTR
            RobbieTT @w0w
            last edited by

            @w0w
            Check that:

            net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3=1
            

            Just to be sure...

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            • w0wW
              w0w @RobbieTT
              last edited by

              @RobbieTT said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

              net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3

              Hmm, does it reflected in pfSense GUI somewhere? I don't have this option at all when listing sysctl net.inet6.ip6, I can add it via tunables anyway, but…

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Check it at the command line:

                [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl -d net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3
                net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3: Accept the default router list from ICMPv6 RA messages even when packet forwarding is enabled
                [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl  net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3
                net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3: 1
                

                It should be 1 by default. You'll only see it in the tunables list if it's been added as a custom value.

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                • w0wW
                  w0w @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10
                  Now I have

                  net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3=1
                  

                  Nothing has changed. Manually disconnecting and reconnecting can result in no IPv6 on WAN, or IPv6 being present on both WAN and LAN, and sometimes it initially appears on WAN but disappears from WAN later.

                  I am not sure it pfSense, it can be my ISP. I see nothing helpful in the logs currently.
                  BTW, sometimes the uptime is also missing, and clients have no internet access — they cannot ping external sites by name or IP, also directly can not ping from pfSense. However, I can resolve names using DNS lookup on the pfSense, so Unbound is somehow working. But when I check the routes, it looks like the default route is missing — there is no 0.0.0.0 route at all.

                  b5703f22-d2f3-4800-b934-98283aaee32b-image.png

                  This is happening often when playing manual disconnect and connect after.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Ok well that seem unrealted to IPv6 or Unbound so it should probably be in a different thread.

                    However I would check the output of pppcfg pppoe0 when that happens. It looks like it's not connecting at all.

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                    • w0wW
                      w0w @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10

                      @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

                      It looks like it's not connecting at all.

                      I don't think so. You can see gateway status on the screenshot and pppoe0 is in routes list, but not default.

                      9a8f5208-507a-4446-990d-8101b401d158-image.png

                      @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

                      Ok well that seem unrealted to IPv6 or Unbound so it should probably be in a different thread.

                      Sure. I think I will do further tests on weekend or when it's possible and post back in another thread.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Hmm, but it shows no IP address against the pppoe gateway and the RTT at 0.5ms seems too low to be real.

                        If you're using if_pppoe it will show an uptime if it's really connected.

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                        • RobbieTTR
                          RobbieTT @stephenw10
                          last edited by RobbieTT

                          @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

                          Nice. More fixes are incoming for various things.

                          The latest IPv6 RA patch has had no adverse consequences on my test setup. 👍

                          Relative trivia but a very easy thing to fix with the 'various things':

                          2025-06-18 08:34:03.000000+01:00	nginx	-	2025/06/18 08:34:03 [error] 333#100367: *9037 open() "/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 2a02:xxx:xxxx:1:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:b6bd, server: , request: "GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/2.0", host: "router-7.xxxxxxx.me:8443"
                          2025-06-18 08:34:03.000000+01:00	nginx	-	2025/06/18 08:34:03 [error] 333#100367: *9037 open() "/usr/local/www/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 2a02:xxx:xxxx:1:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:b6bd, server: , request: "GET /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png HTTP/2.0", host: "router-7.xxxxxxx.me:8443"
                          

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            What are you accessing from to generate those?

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                            • w0wW
                              w0w @stephenw10
                              last edited by w0w

                              @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:
                              https://forum.netgate.com/topic/197887/pppoe-problems-getting-an-ipv6-address-on-reconnection-and-other-problems continuing there

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                              • RobbieTTR
                                RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                last edited by

                                @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

                                What are you accessing from to generate those?

                                Just from a Mac.

                                The files exist on pfSense but are down a level in a sub-directory, rather than the usual location.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  I don't see those specifically only:

                                  [2.8.0-RELEASE][root@m370.stevew.lan]/root: ls -ls /usr/local/www/apple-touch/
                                  total 26
                                  5 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 3669 May 20 15:25 apple-touch-icon-ipad-76x76-precomposed.png
                                  9 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 7260 May 20 15:25 apple-touch-icon-ipad-retina-152x152-precomposed.png
                                  5 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 2965 May 20 15:25 apple-touch-icon-iphone-60x60-precomposed.png
                                  9 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 5640 May 20 15:25 apple-touch-icon-iphone-retina-120x120-precomposed.png
                                  

                                  So those requests are from Safari in MacOS?

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                                  • RobbieTTR
                                    RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                    last edited by RobbieTT

                                    @stephenw10

                                    It expects to find the png files in this directory:

                                    /root: ls /usr/local/www/
                                    404.html                                 services_checkip_edit.php
                                    50x.html                                 services_dhcp.php
                                    android-chrome-192x192.png               services_dhcp_edit.php
                                    android-chrome-512x512.png               services_dhcp_relay.php
                                    apple-touch                              services_dhcp_settings.php
                                    [/snip]
                                    

                                    The Android/Chrome pngs are there but the Apple equivalents apple-touch-icon.png and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png are not, so it triggers the error in the logs. As you note, the iPhone and iPad pngs are in the apple-touch sub-directory.

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Right so seems like something missing that's (relatively) new. I asked internally since I don't run MacOS.

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        You are seeing this specifically when using Safari? We can't replicate that here so far. Everything we've tested just uses the correct path specified in the meta data.

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          OK we manage to replicate it. Weird that most things don't hit it. Digging....

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                                          • RobbieTTR
                                            RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                            last edited by

                                            @stephenw10 said in DNS resolver exiting when loading pfblocker 25.03.b.20250409.2208:

                                            OK we manage to replicate it. Weird that most things don't hit it. Digging....

                                            Good effort and yes, noticed the issue with Safari.

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