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    PFSense 2.03 Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com

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      simply seth last edited by

      In the packages GUI I get the error "Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com"

      Dig Response on the CLI of the pfsense box  …

      
      ;; ANSWER SECTION:
      www.pfsense.com.        39      IN      CNAME   www.pfsense.org.
      www.pfsense.org.        39      IN      A       192.207.126.26
      
      ;; Query time: 38 msec
      ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
      ;; WHEN: Sat Aug  3 16:56:34 2013
      ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 78
      
      
      • DNS forwarder is active and has custom hostnames for  the internal LAN

      • ONLY the WAN interface is active

      • NAT/Firewalling disabled

      What should I try next ??

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate last edited by

        Assuming your routing is otherwise OK, if you have snort enabled, make sure it's not blocking that request. It's quite common for snort + blocking + HTTP preprocessors to block the package XML for one reason or another.

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