Persistent Internet Connection- available in pfSense?
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When you think it is down, try to ping some other known IP addresses that should respond, like:
216.146.35.35 - DynDNS
216.146.36.36
8.8.8.8 - Googel DNS
8.8.4.4
208.67.222.222 - OpenDNS
208.67.220.220If those are all reachable, then you seem to still have internet routing.
Then try looking up names:
nslookup pfsense.org.and so on.
If it is just DNS name lookup that is broken, then point your pfSense to some of the above addresses for DNS, in System->General Setup.
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Ok, thank you all for contributing your answers to my question.
Greatly appreciated! ;DI follow the advice from phil.davis
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Phill is right, but this will only work if ISP provided DNS server is the issue.
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Phill is right, but this will only work if ISP provided DNS server is the issue.
Yes, the ISP does provides its own DNS servers
See below:DNS server(s)
127.0.0.1
161.142.2.17<–---- This the 1st DNS server prodvided.
161.142.212.17<----This the 2nd DNS server provided.
192.168.1.1I am suspecting the routing (DNS traffic to the ISP DNS servers) is a bit unreliable.
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I actually doubt this is going to fix your problem but its worth a try.
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I actually doubt this is going to fix your problem but its worth a try.
Yes, I also doubt it, but what to do? There is only 1 crappy ISP doing business in a small town.
There is no alternative ISP available that I can switch to…..to get a better quality link connection. :)The only thing I can do is try on my end first and see it helps or not. :)
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See - Its strange that a crappy ISP would be fixed with hardware resets and reboots on your end.
Seems more likely something on your end is to fault. -
Your provider may or may not use connection profiling to increase stability. Here in the UK it's a well known issue. For example:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.html#229
And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL_Max#Rate_adaptation_and_BT_Wholesale.27s_.27Dynamic_Line_Management.27_.28DLM.29
If you don't know I would try to avoid it!See - Its strange that a crappy ISP would be fixed with hardware resets and reboots on your end.
Well presumably that results in a new WAN IP address which might well restore the connection if it is being filtered as a result of some upstream malware detection. If that's true then the same thing would happen if you renew your IP by manually disconnecting and reconnecting the PPPoE session.
Steve
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Yes - Now this I can agree with, but thats a user issue.
I think trying it a couple days with a clean install of whatever OS he likes is probably a good idea.
If malware is the problem, don't need to be bouncing his pfsense box all the time. Needs to get rid of the malware.
