Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com -> when accessing available packages

atheos

Any time I attempt to search available packages, I get this error
"Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com. Please verify DNS and interface configuration, and that pfSense has functional Internet connectivity."

DNS is pointed to 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4, no DNS forwarding, and I can resolve hostnames from the command line.

if I try accessing packages manually from the command line
fetch -o - http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml

I get this error.

fetch: http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml: No buffer space available

This is directly connected to the internet, no proxy no other filter/firewall.
I had previously installed a package, so it worked at one time.
Please advise - Thanks

marcelloc

Do you have free space on disk? I've never seen buffer error on fetch cmd.

atheos

I'm good on space. I might lab up another one with the same config, and see if I have similar problems. This machine is remote and very busy, so I'm hoping I don't have to do that. Storage is on a 1G CF

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxxx]/root(1): df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ufs/pfsense0 443M 215M 193M 53% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/md0 38M 690K 35M 2% /tmp
/dev/md1 58M 10M 43M 19% /var
/dev/ufs/cf 49M 552K 45M 1% /cf
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/dhcpd/dev
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxx]/root(2):

marcelloc

@atheos:

Storage is on a 1G CF

you have to mount it rw before any package install, did you did that?

/etc/rc.conf_mount_rw

and

/etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

atheos

still no love

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxx]/root(4): cd /
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxx]/(5): /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxx]/(6): fetch -o - http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml
fetch: http://www.pfsense.org/packages/pkg_config.8.xml: No buffer space available
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.xxxx]/(7): /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

stephenw10

Can you fetch to /tmp ?

Steve

atheos

cannot fetch to /tmp, but I can create a file in there.

stephenw10

Ah so perhaps a network buffer problem, though I would expect some other network issues.
What does 'netstat -m' show?

Steve

atheos

1187/5608/6795 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
1181/5353/6534/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
1180/5348 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
0/44/44/12800 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/6400 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/3200 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
2660K/12284K/14944K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
0/4/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
0 requests for sfbufs denied
0 requests for sfbufs delayed
0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
0 calls to protocol drain routines

anything interesting in there? possibly related, download speeds are great, upload speeds are the opposite of great.

stephenw10

I would say that for some reason your tcp transmit buffer is full. Or at least it's emptying far slower than it should.
Just a guess though.

If you Google the problem you'll see it can be caused by something as simple as a loose network card or bad cable.

Steve