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Date:      Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:32:35 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 222126] pf is not clearing expired states
Message-ID:  <bug-222126-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D222126

            Bug ID: 222126
           Summary: pf is not clearing expired states
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.1-RELEASE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: noah.bergbauer@tum.de

Ever since I updated this server from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.1-RELEASE a few we=
eks
ago, it sometimes just stops accepting connections (existing connections are
fine). The kernel complains about too many firewall states:

[zone: pf states] PF states limit reached

A quick look at those states with pfctl reveals ten-thousands of old and de=
ad
connections that should be long gone - for example, FIN_WAIT_2 states with =
an
age of three hours. The pfctl output says "expires in 00:00:00" for all of
these connections, so pf obviously agrees that they're dead but doesn't del=
ete
them for some reason.

When I first diagnosed this problem, adding "set timeout interval 1" to the=
 pf
configuration immediately cleared out the old states and the server was up =
and
running again. However, this did not permanently fix the issue. The server
keeps going down regularly and I have to manually flush the pf states to ge=
t it
back online.

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