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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    @andrew_cb said in haproxy 0.63_2 weird behavior, edits not working: @iSagen @TheCyborgWeasel The issue is likely the same as in https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178348/haproxy-backend-port-changes-are-not-applied/ Try adding load-server-state-from-file none to the Advanced Settings > Backend pass thru section of each backend. Great! I will do this.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Leon-Straathof Data retention settings are handled inside of ntopng. Documentation here. Pay attention to the RRD note. Also, if you've turned on some of the slice and dice time series information (is off by default), I'd suggest turning them back off. These balloon the storage requirements and are of little actual use.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @keyser if you want the less random more static time this: the code that needs to be changed is in pfblockerng.inc best to make yourself a patch file and apply it that way , so if the package is reinstalled (updated) or whatever. you can just "verify" the patch and just reapply. I ran with this (but different time) under 24.11 when I upgraded to 25.07 just verified and re-applied the patch. if you want look to look at at the code for the lines being changed just above that "if statement" is the comment // Define pfBlockerNG MaxMind/TOP1M/ASN Cron job name the patch whatever you like and set these behaviour options [image: 1755355045857-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.35.14-am.png] This is the patch contents (made just for you to hit the time before 2am) --- pfblockerng.inc.orig 2025-08-16 10:30:40 +++ pfblockerng.inc 2025-08-16 10:29:52 @@ -10669,8 +10669,8 @@ if ($pfb['enable'] == 'on') { $pfb_gcmd = "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dcc >> {$pfb['extraslog']} 2>&1"; // CRON hour is randomized between 0-23 Hour to minimize effect on Servers - $pfb_gmin = '0'; - $pfb_ghour = rand(0,23); + $pfb_gmin = '35'; + $pfb_ghour = '1'; $pfb_gmday = '*'; $pfb_gmonth = '*'; $pfb_gwday = '*'; In this I changed the time from the random top of the hour to 1 35 am (just before your 2am pfblocker update and with time to spare. However, I would recommend anything that is not at the top of the hour (0) minutes as that is when almost everything else gets scheduled.) FWIW. I also changed the "top" of the hour on my system so the pfblocker cron setting so that everything is offset by 30 minutes, and therefore don't conflict with other jobs that are also at 0 minutes (as most are) If you make this change on the dialog, then you might need to change the above, so it runs at say 1 15 am (adjust accordingly to suit your needs) pfblocker general page cron settings GUI [image: 1755356115122-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.53.11-am.png] next time it creates the job it will schedule it for the now not so random time of your choice. If you want to adjust the time and the patch has been applied, revert - edit the patch times (minutes/hours) only - then reapply. (unlikely you want to change the day month or week day, but if you did you would need a modified patch)
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: maybe uninstall Crowdsec when applying other updates first. It seems like it doesn't help at least from what I see on my system... it changes something.. so it must be definitely reported to their github. I have never experienced that before and crowsec was installed.. maybe with 2.8.0 something have changed
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    said in Please update frr on Pfsense+ to FRR 10.3: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15785 now frr 10.4.1
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Upgraded 25.07 and Tailscale is broken in the way users here describe. I can manually log in using sudo /usr/local/bin/tailscale login, but the tailscale service in pfSense does not pick this up and restarting the service clobbers the login state. Given 16004 was logged 7 months ago with zero activity, this is an indication that Netgate devices no longer support Tailscale.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Strangely enough, checking the system 4 days later, I now see that Wireguard service is reported running! The last thing I did 4 days ago was to disable Wireguard service monitoring by the Service Watchdog. Anyway, even when it was reported stopped at first, 4 days ago, the tunnels were working flawlessly. Very strange. I will keep an eye on it.
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  • Unbound 1.4.14_01 with 2.1-dev snapshot - not working

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    So your saying its already installed and I don't need to install the package?  I don't see it listed as service to start, etc. So how do I get it running on 2.1 snapshot?
  • Dansguardian + windowsupdate.com

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    You can see logs with a tail -f /var/log/dansguardian/access.log from console or via ssh.
  • Imspector installation failed.

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    My ISP is the problem. they are filtered the IMSPECTOR word . thanx for reply.
  • Snort automatic restart after pfsense reboot

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    Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Overlaps: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Queued: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Queued: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Released: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Released: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Rebuilt Packets: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Rebuilt Packets: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Used: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Segments Used: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Discards: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Discards: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Gaps: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Gaps: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Sessions Created: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Sessions Created: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Sessions Deleted: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Sessions Deleted: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Timeouts: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Timeouts: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Discards: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Discards: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Events: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Events: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Internal Events: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Internal Events: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Port Filter Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: TCP Port Filter Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Dropped: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Dropped: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Inspected: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Inspected: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Tracked: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Tracked: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Port Filter Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: UDP Port Filter Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Dropped: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Dropped: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Inspected: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Inspected: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Tracked: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Tracked: 0 Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: =============================================================================== Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: =============================================================================== Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: =============================================================================== Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: =============================================================================== Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Snort exiting Mar 6 20:30:32 snort[16260]: Snort exiting Mar 6 20:30:34 ^M ^M Mar 6 20:30:35 ^M ^M Mar 6 20:31:24 apinger: /usr/local/bin/rrdtool respawning too fast, waiting 300s. its a amd64 install. Hpe this helps
  • Snort DNS Spoof messages (confused)

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    Maybe this somewhat older article helps: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2003/12/understanding-snort-dns-ttl-alerts.html Using Wireshark is too much work for me, but a concise dig command also helps: [007@wopr ~]$ dig +nocmd -x 8.8.8.8 +noall +answer 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.  44632  IN      PTR    google-public-dns-a.google.com. Your dns server is unlikely the authorative one for this address, so you'll see only the remainig time to live (the number in red), which is still a bit larger than 60s. You should probably check your DNS setup, but Google doesn't seem to work with very short TTL values. As the article indicates, sid 254 is not really that useful, as real man-in-the-middle attackers would probably use lower values to attack you, or at least not exactly 60s…
  • SpamD whitelist entire source domains

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  • Squid: Bypass proxy for Private Address Space

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    @Nachtfalke: 192.168.0.0/16 172.17.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8 it's 172.16.0.0/12  ;)
  • Dansguardian step-by-step set-up doc for noobs for 2.0.1?

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    There in no guide yet. :( When you install dansguardian package 95% of default config is applied, you have just to select squid ip and port. In the help tab there is a link for a dansguardian wiki that helps you on understanding how dansguardian works. the usual setup is dansguardian -> squid -> internet
  • I need Squid/SquidGuard log analyzer

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    I'm very busy on my job, maybe next week.  ;)
  • Unbound undocumented fatal error, and a few questions

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    @stilez: How do I view or clear pfsense's own hosts file and local DNS cache? pfSense's host files is populated with the entries in the Host override section and also if you have DHCP hosts been automatically added. @stilez: Unbound is creating unwanted entries for my LAN IPs and some WAN side IPs ("local-data-ptr: "x.x.x.x PC_NAME.DOMAIN"" etc). What's the necessary config code for Unbound to not create records for, or to refuse to act as a DNS server for, specific IP ranges? Delete the entries from your host and domain overrides as Unbound makes use of that to populate its entries.
  • Using Snort as IDS in the beggining

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    Don't worry about the memory. You've got more than enough.
  • SquidGuard db problem

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    This is another example where reading part of the docs is worse than none. squidGuard uses its own compare function (domainCompare()), so db_verify() cannot possibly know about the intended sort order. This is why verifying fails. The -o flag allows for skipping the sort order verification and when checking the domains.db files db_verify -o domains.db should be called. Needless to say, all db files are ok.
  • Shell command to remove squid

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    If you installed squid pfsense package, during uninstall it removes squid binaries. find / -name squid will find all folders/files with this name To remove a folder, you can use rm -rf /path_to_folder_you_want_to_remove. Be carefull, rm can destroy your installation.
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  • Squid3 access.log rotation

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    Something that worked this time, who knows why.  I stopped the squid service and then started it usingsquid -d 9to get it to log what was going on to the console.  In a separate console I ran``` squid -k rotate ***EDIT**** Found same thing was occurring on a second pfsense box, same version, same installed add-ons, much less traffic.  Did the commands listed above and rotate finally worked again.  I'm also killing the squid -d 9 process that I started for doing the log rotation and starting squid again through the web console.
  • Squid Caching Windows Updates

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    Thanks for the thorough reply, very helpful.
  • OpenOSPFd routes not in routing table (Solved)

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    I dont enable RIP. But i have same problems when one of links to neighbors is down.
  • Upgrade squid to squid-reverse

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    Thanks. I've deinstalled squid and then installed squid-reverse, everything is working  :)
  • Squidguard on schedule problems

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    I have looked at adolfo screen shots. My ALIX nanobsd 2.0.1 system has all the same way of trying to do this. But it just doesn't change the rules as the time changes. If I restart SquidGuard when I get to the different time period, it happily implements the new rules. Then the rules for the new time seem to apply forever. At the weekend I can try this on 2.1 development on a spare ALIX system and see what hapeens.
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