Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Tinka
Just an update to the list for the archives: The Internet connection finally came in, and even with DNS reachability, the GUI was still massively slow. After lots of troubleshooting, it turned out to be exhausted MBUF's on the system. The default values were not sufficient, and that's what

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: Hello all. New to pfSense, loving the concept straight-off-the-bat! I'm in the process of setting up the installation per our environment, and seem to be hitting this seemingly consistent issue - a slow web GUI due to

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, June 22, 2012 01:20:21 PM Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Mark, Hello Wash, long time no see :-). A shot in the wild, but how about if you added the connecting host to /etc/hosts (manually)? First thing I tried, no dice :-(. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: Hello all. New to pfSense, loving the concept straight-off-the-bat! I'm in the process of setting up the installation per our environment, and seem to be hitting this seemingly consistent issue - a slow web GUI due to

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On Friday, June 22, 2012 01:20:21 PM Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Mark, Hello Wash, long time no see :-). Hi Mark, It was nice seeing you online again :-) You moved to MU?? A shot in the wild, but how about if

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, June 22, 2012 01:36:14 PM Chris Buechler wrote: Known issue that's fixed in the next release. Many thanks for the confirmation, Chris. Much appreciated. For now - fix your DNS. DNS isn't the issue - the link isn't in yet, so I'm just covering ground as it's expected. I'm

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, June 22, 2012 05:22:33 PM Vick Khera wrote: I just set up two boxes two days ago to replace an under-powered cluster. I did not notice this at all. The only delay I had was on boot when trying to start openntpd after restoring the configs from the production boxes. The only

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Setup - Slow GUI DNS?

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: The machine is still in setup mode, so it's not connected to the Internet. However, it seems that a quick web GUI loves DNS (confirmed via pfSense state