For the past couple of days the IPFire will randomly stop connecting to it’s fibre WAN, and will tell me that the ppp0 connection is idle, whereas it has no connection at all. Then it will connect okay, but it stays in DNS broken state no matter what I try for the DNS servers. Thus, despite Pakfire showing an update from 190 to 192, it refuses to download, telling me that it is offline. (The same message for the DNS servers failing “The system is offline”).
I am online, or couldn’t write this message!
So is there a way I can grab the update file from 190->192 and apply it manually?
[root@firewall ~]# dig pakfire.ipfire.org
; <<>> DiG 9.20.3 <<>> pakfire.ipfire.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59240
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pakfire.ipfire.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
pakfire.ipfire.org. 19625 IN A 81.3.27.49
;; Query time: 301 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 18 11:45:15 GMT 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
[root@firewall ~]# dig @8.8.8.8 pakfire.ipfire.org
; <<>> DiG 9.20.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 pakfire.ipfire.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22449
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pakfire.ipfire.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
pakfire.ipfire.org. 21600 IN A 81.3.27.49
;; Query time: 508 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 18 11:45:36 GMT 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
[root@firewall ~]#