While working on another issue I noticed that on the lan interface which
does not have dhcp relay enabled, the pfsense box is receiving and
retransmitting
dhcp requests.
In this case, the dhcp server itself lies on the same vlan and interface that
the client exists on hence the relay is not
I saw something similar once after an upgrade, installing packages, when
pfSense's DNS wasn't running. Linux doesn't really do a round-robin or
last-known-good DNS search, it just keeps trying the failing ones. I don't
recall noticing it on the main screen though.
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Steve Yates
ITS, Inc.
Figured it out.
Had to enter a few hosts into the local DNS resolver, including a CNAME for one
of our LDAP authentication servers. The delay was DNS waiting to time out/fail
on the local DNS records before pointing off to our other, canonical, internal
DNS servers.
Thanks again for the
Thanks for the responses folks.
I'm using Western Digital 1TB black drives connected to an LSI MegaRaid card. I
use this setup extensively with FreeBSD on systems ranging, at the moment, from
8.1 to 11.0-RC2. I don't experience this type of slowdown on other systems.
Load is nil:
