Unable to connect to pfsense.com

Reply to Unable to connect to pfsense.com on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:13:59 GMT

cmb — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:13:59 GMT

sounds like you don't actually have a default gateway ("no route to host" indicates as such), though the other thing you pasted, "ping: sendto: Host is down" indicates a wrong subnet mask somewhere, or a wrong route. That indicates it can't ARP the destination host, which it won't ever attempt for an Internet-reachable host unless you do something crazy like assign a /1 mask to an interface or similar. It may also do that if it can't ARP the route for that network.

Reply to Unable to connect to pfsense.com on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:19:33 GMT

stephenw10 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:19:33 GMT

@w.hackl:

Can this be a strange outbound nat thing ?

Unlikely. Why do you ask? Do you have a complex configuration?

Can you ping/traceroute other sites from the pfSense box?

Can you retrieve pkg_config.8.xml from one of your internal client machines?

Are you or have you ever been running Snort?

Steve

Reply to Unable to connect to pfsense.com on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:58:33 GMT

w.hackl — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:58:33 GMT

Hi stephenw10,

i've checked the package manager settings , it is unchecked …

if i try to fetch the xml from the console , i get no response ( timeout ).

fetch: http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml: No route to host

Can this be a strange outbound nat thing ?

Reply to Unable to connect to pfsense.com on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:53:03 GMT

stephenw10 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:53:03 GMT

The pfSense.com/org domain does not repsond to pings so this not a good test.

Check that you have the correct settings for the package manager, go to:
https://10.150.150.254/pkg_mgr_settings.php
Make sure it is still set to default (unchecked).

At the console try this:


[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(1): fetch -o /dev/null http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml
/dev/null                                     100% of   85 kB  196 kBps

If this is successful you should be in business.

Is the system able to check for updates correctly? 'You are on the latest version' shown on the dashboard.

Steve