PFSense 2.03 Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com

[simply seth]

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 ??

[jimp]

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.