setup an mtr and let it run, watch for packet loss...
i had such behaviour too and it was sourced by an improper routing setup
from the ISP

2012/7/22 Seth Mos <[email protected]>

> Remember that your isp can have routing issues too.
>
> Im afraid this is not limited to pfsense. Ive had my shares of weird
> routing glitches where a upstream  bgp router lost significant parts of the
> internet.
>
> This is not something ypu could work around short of having your own bgp
> router with multiple feeds in house.
>
> Regards seth
>
>
> Gavin Will <[email protected]>schreef:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Our PF Sense 2.0.1 box has been super reliable for months and there
> hasn't been any change in config for quite a while.
> >
> >On the weekend though I got Nagios emails saying that remote hosts at
> satellite sites were down. Initially it looked like the whole internet at
> the main site was down for a couple of minutes and recovered but under
> investigation this is not the case.
> >
> >Strange thing is that some hosts appear down but others are not at the
> remote sites. For example I can ping an esxi box on the remote site but not
> a separate box or a VM running on the Esxi box.
> >
> >This happens to all  remote sites at the same time. Some sites use
> openvpn and some are ipsec so not an issue specifically with one of the VPN
> services.
> >
> >Nagios also monitors a public website. It said it was down and when
>  remoted in to my work PC I could not gain access to the site or ping it
> however on my local computer at home the site was up and responded to a
> ping External monitoring service also said the site was up. Since I was
> remoted in to my PC Internet was clearly working but couldn't ping remote
> sites or visit this public website but could google and browse other sites.
> >
> >Initially thought this was possibly arp poisioning but no logs to show
> that. The logs don't show much but I suspect they are currently not verbose
> enough.
> >
> >This has now happened twice in a 24hour period with routing very unstable
> for approx 30 minutes and then comes back and all is working,
> >
> >Any Ideas? How would I best troubleshoot / diagnose this?
> >
> >Cheers
> >
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