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

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    Can I use pgblockerng aliases in Haproxy?

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    If it was a firewall rule, typing pfb would produce a dropdown to select.

    Here it has to be written, but will it work? Is it supported?

  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @bmeeks So after upgrading to the newest PfSense 2.8.0 everything is now working like a charm!

    Suricata no longer seems to strip off tags like it did before! Which means I can now use my network segmented by VLANs and still use the benefits of Suricata Inline IPS! Very niiize!

    I checked in the Alerts section and it is indeed generating the correct alerts from the different VLAN sections, I put Inline IPS on the parent interface of all the VLANs.

    I assume this is because the FreeBSD version is also updated with the new PfSense 2.8.0 version?

    Because before, as soon as I selected Inline IPS mode, my entire VLAN tagging would break and nothing was reachable until I switched back to Legacy mode.

  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger
    The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat.
    With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @SteveITS ...got it, I should have looked in the docs... I do too use Quad9 and have DNSSEC disabled, so I guess my question is pointless..

    Thank you for all the help.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @EChondo

    What's your pfSense version ?
    The instructions are shown here :

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    A restart of a service will start by re creating their config files. If a certificate changed, it will get included. When the process starts, it will use the new certificate.

    @EChondo said in Issue with ACME Certificates Refresh & Restarting HAProxy:

    I haven't been able to confirm if the above works(mine just renewed, don't feel like doing it again just to test), so we'll see in 60 days I guess.

    No need to wait x days.
    You can re test / renew right away, as you are 'allowed' to renew a couple (5 max ?) of times per week.

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    I had a similar issue with Routed VTI over IPsec recently. FRR lost its neighbors after rebooting or when a tunnel went down. It never re-discovered it automatically. Only restarting FRR (either in GUI or via CLI) brought the neighbors back.

    When I manually added those under the OSPF neighbors tab in the GUI it seems to solve the problem as well.

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hello,
    I am unable to get the Tailscale package to work. The page at VPN > Tailscale > Authentication is stuck. It displays the error "Tailscale is not online," but also shows a "Logout and Clean" button, with no option to log in.
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    This state persists even after performing the following troubleshooting steps:

    Rebooting the pfSense router.

    Completely uninstalling and reinstalling the Tailscale package multiple times.

    Clearing browser cache and using a private browser window.

    Toggling the main "Enable Tailscale" checkbox in the settings.

    Checking the logs, which show the service gets a "terminate" signal and shuts down cleanly; it does not crash.

    Manually trying to delete the state file with rm /var/db/tailscale/tailscaled.state, which failed because the file does not exist.

    It appears that the package's configuration is corrupted in a way that persists even after reinstallation. Can anyone advise on how to perform a complete manual cleanup of all Tailscale files and settings?

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I've read through some other posts about this, but they either didn't say whether the proposed solution worked or they were very convoluted and difficult to understand. Here is our scenario: We have 6 locations--Las Cruces (LC), Sunland Park (SP), El Paso (EP), Abilene (ABI), Fort Worth (FW), and Plano (PL). LC and ABI have software that is accessed by the other 4 locations via VPN. There are WireGuard VPNs set up between LC and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL), and ABI and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL). There is also a WireGuard VPN connection between LC and ABI. LC and ABI have 2 internet connections. SP, EP, FW, and PL each have one internet connection.

    If the primary internet connection goes down at either LC or ABI and failover occurs to the secondary internet connection, is there a way to set up the WireGuard VPN connections so that they also failover without purchasing some 3rd party application?

    Thanks.

  • Looping Squid Auth

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    Anything? Stuck on the same problem…

    I'll try to use squid3, maybe it works

  • Gui status for dashboard squid3

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  • Squid custom fields

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    I found that just %Hs work and puts in the status code.  I really appreciate your help.  It seems that everything is working now.

  • Squid3 or Squid2 … Your thoughts...

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    Thank you for your input. I will test with v3 and see.
    If it has antivirus, maybe I can skip having HAVP installed…

  • Unable to get Squid transparent proxy to accept traffic on its own

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  • SNORT sending emails about cron

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    @spudy12:

    Ah okay so it's nothing to worry about?
    I just assumed as it was sending an alert it was something that was not good (to much of that with my NAS lately)

    Also my Alert list is being spammed with

    (http_inspect) UNKNOWN METHOD

    Is there anyway to limit the number of these logged or turn it off altogether?

    Cheers!

    The cron e-mail is a never-mind.  Just spam.  I will see if I can get rid of in an upcoming update.

    As for the http_inspect alert, those are very common.  So common, in fact, that I wonder why the rule authors even keep them in their packages.  But since they do, my advice is either disable the rule or suppress it.  A suppressed rule still "fires", but Snort eats the alert.  A disabled rule never wastes CPU time being used to inspect against traffic, since disabled rules are not loaded.  Which to use is your call as admin.  I have chosen to disable the rule.  You can do that either on the RULES tab by selecting Preprocessor Rules in the drop-down, or (easier method) find the alert on the ALERTS tab display and click the red X icon to add the rule to the forced disabled list.

    Bill

  • Package Site Down??

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    ESF: Please kill your AAAA records until this is fixed.

  • Suricata 2.0.3 pkg v2.0.1 Update – Release Notes

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    The promised bug fix update for Suricata has been posted.  I started a new thread with those Release Notes.  The update to package version 2.0.2 from 2.0.1 addresses the bugs identified in this thread.  All are fixed except one, which is not actually a bug.  The Suricata Dashboard Widget will remember which column it was in when the package is uninstalled and reinstalled, but it will always position itself at the bottom of that column.  This happens because when Suricata is removed, the Dashboard Widget must also be removed or errors will result from missing files.  A package upgrade on pfSense actually performs an uninstall and then reinstall.  So the Dashboard Widget is removed during the uninstall step and then reinstalled when the package is.  However, it is not possible for the widget to position itself back exactly where it was before.  It will go to the bottom of the column where it was previously located.

    Bill

  • Unable to update package and reinstall package

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    Adjusted my hosts file and success!
    Thank you!

  • HAVP on 4G NanoBSD

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    I know this is an old thread but I though this would be a good topic to bring back from the dead since it is the first result in Google.  Could we use something similar to what is suggested at http://www.zeroshell.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1916.  This is the pertinent part:

    Step 0 - Disable your HAVP proxy using the GUI, in the case it is currently enabled.
    Step 1 - (Ignore)
    Step 2 - The following command have to be both executed in the Zeroshell's shell AND added to your pre-boot scripts (through the Zeroshell's GUI):
        > mount -omand,noatime,uid=havp,gid=havp,size=50m -ttmpfs none /Database/var/register/system/havp/tmp
    Step 3 - Re-enable your HAVP proxy using the GUI.

  • Squid not working after ip address change

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    I had been trying and failing to set up squid and squidguard when my LAN was set up to use 172.31.1.0/24.

    I reset to factory defaults and left all at 192.168.1.0/24 and the installation went fine.

  • Sqid3-dev squidguard time based filtering stops

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  • Postfix - Zombie Blocker persistent whitelist cache

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    ilvipero,

    Sorry for the delay in replying.  The package doesn't cache the domain.  It caches the IP address of the sending server.

    The postscreen cache (where previously seen IPs are stored)  is held in /var/db/postfix/postscreen_cache.db

    A reboot should not affect that - I've even backed it up and restored it to a fresh install.

    You can see what IPs are in there with

    postmap -s btree:/var/db/postfix/postscreen_cache

    Are you running an embedded install of pfSense?

  • Snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.2 not logging Alerts

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    @highlandpeak:

    Bill,

    Thanks for the hard work.

    BAM

    If your configuration is still muddled up and giving you problems, send me a PM and I will work with you offline to get it fixed.  Essentially what was happening to you is the Snort PHP code was getting confused by the duplicate UUIDs for different interfaces and wound up trying to "start" the wrong one (one that is already started).  That's why one of your interfaces was giving a SOFT RESTART notice.  Its UUID matched one of your earlier configured interfaces (most likely the one it was cloned from).  Snort uses that UUID to differentiate interface instances.

    Bill

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    @Grandmaster:

    No problem at all Bill. Thanks for all the work.

    Normally I'd not use spaces for exactly this sort of reason but for some reason my thumbs took over on this one and typed a space - The thumbs have been duly admonished, put back in their box and I am now using a sensor name without a space and typing with only eight fingers. But as it got me scratching my head I thought I'd report it as a bug in case another person also has rogue thumbs or it crops up in some other manner.

    Cheers

    James

    I just tested and Barnyard2 itself won't honor any spaces in the config file (even when the string containing them is quoted).  So I added validation logic to the SAVE code that checks for spaces in the Sensor Name and throws a validation error if any are found.  I was able to sneak this fix into the current Suricata update that is under review by the pfSense developer team.  I will also add it to the next Snort update.

    Again, thank you for the report.

    Bill

  • Stunnel

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  • Transparent Proxy issue?

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    what about flashing it with this firmware?

    http://joeyiodice.com/converting-tp-link-tl-wr1043nd-to-dd-wrt/

  • SQUID: Filtering streaming media using regular expressions

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    Onde add as expressoes regulares

  • Postfix Domain Suffix Blocking issue

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    Good to hear it worked.

    For future reference this site was very helpful.

  • Allow Single Website for single IP only

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    In SquidGuard, create a new ACL for just the one IP address.  Then sequence it right at the top of your rules.

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