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

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    @johnpoz said in Please help to configure HAProxy to serve certifficate on internal LAN too: Yeah - what part do you not understand if you always resolve nextcloud.domain.tld so that it hits your haproxy on your pfsense wan IP are you not getting? You have 2 options - use a different domain internally and always go to nextcloud.publicdomain.tld, or use the same domain internally as external and run into the problem of what IP it resolves to.. Change your local domain to say home.arpa or .internal or atleast something different than the public domain your using to point to pfsense wan IP on the public internet. You are shooting yourself in the foot trying to use the same domain externally as internally. There are ways around it, but they complicate the setup. For example you might be able to use views in unbound as one way to work around the problem. You could use only host entries for all your resources. But then again you run into a problem of using the fqdn for this service, now always pointing to your wan IP.. And that is great when you want to access the service haproxy is doing - but if you want to access that resource on some other service that haproxy doesn't handle - like say simple file sharing.. You are going to have problems. Since you clearly do not understand how any of this works - the simple solution is change the local domain you are using so it is not the same as the public domain you want to use to get to your nextcloud. This tone is outrageous directed at somebody who acknowledged right off the rip that English is not their first language. How many languages do you speak, John? And safely assuming it's only one—English of course—take it from a fellow English native that you'd do well to say more with less words. You otherwise were directing OP in the right direction in my opinion.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    Here. I think. Referenced as "github.com: vendor-provided URL vendor-advisory" in your link.
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @kabeda If memory serves, that old version of ntopng did not run as user ntopng, but as user nobody. There are lots of problems in that old version. Anyway, check the ownership and permissions of /var/db/ntopng and make sure it matches the user that ntopng runs as. You may need to set ownership of the entire hierarchy. Example: /usr/sbin/chown -R nobody:nobody /var/db/ntopng However, the better choice would be to upgrade to a more recent version.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @netboy said in is something wrong with pfBlockerNG?: After my post, I "changed" DNSBL -> DNSBL mode from "unbound python mode" to "unbound mode" and so far i have no issues. Terrible idea. Moving backwards in development history there.
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @fjmp24 said in Notification: UPS ups battery is low: If I remove ignorelb directive, my UPS shuts down after 16 seconds This means your UPS is signaling a low battery. Either your battery is bad, or your UPS is bad. Most likely battery, but you never know. I suggest reaching out to Eaton support.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    I am using the DNS-Update method I have to use a DNS-Sleep of 5 minutes to let the letsencrypt txt dns record update propagate. During this 5 minutes the acme-webgui times out. when the acme-webgui times out the Action list is NOT executed. How can I solve this ? Would it maybe be an idea to let the acme.sh script execute the actions in the action list as a post-hook instead of the web-gui? Or maybe add an option to add post-hooks in the webUI ?
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    This one has been tricky still not sure what to try. Any ideas?
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    @luckman212 I had a nice chat with Netgate Support Bot, https://www.netgate.com/support. I added some highlights below: "Netgate Support Bot This is a known issue reported by multiple users: enabling Tailscale with sysrc tailscaled_enable="YES" does not always auto-start Tailscale after a pfSense reboot. The current workaround is to run the following after each reboot manually: service tailscaled stop && tailscale logout || true && service tailscaled start && tailscale up" "Netgate Support Bot Based on all available Netgate forum reports, there is no conclusive evidence that the failure to auto-start Tailscale after reboot when using sysrc tailscaled_enable="YES" is specifically due to Tailscale’s state being stored in a RAM disk. The root cause is still under investigation by the community. Most users confirm that a manual restart is required post-boot regardless of RAM disk settings." I will check the RAM Disk settings to learn more, but given others' lack of success, I will not experiment with it at this time. Here's what the Chatbot has to say: "Netgate Support Bot Yes, you can disable the RAM disk for /var to test if it helps persist Tailscale's state across reboots. Disabling the RAM disk for /var moves log files, RRD graph data, DHCP leases, and package data storage back to disk instead of volatile memory. Impacts and considerations: The firewall will write these files directly to disk, so settings and logs will persist through reboots and power losses. Packages that write to /var, including Tailscale and packages like pfBlockerNG, Snort, or Squid, will have better persistence. However, disk write activity will increase, especially for logging, RRD data, and DHCP leases. Disabling the RAM disk reduces the risk of data loss after an improper shutdown, but you may lose some of the benefits (e.g., lower disk wear) intended for devices with fragile storage (e.g., low-cost flash or SD cards). Some packages may behave differently on disk vs RAM disk and should be tested after reboot. To disable the RAM disk: Go to System > Advanced > Miscellaneous > RAM Disk Settings in pfSense. Uncheck 'Use RAM Disks' for /var, then Save and Reboot. If you use logging or packages that need persistent state (like VPNs, reporting, DHCP), disabling the RAM disk usually increases reliability but may wear storage more."" "Netgate Support Bot There is no direct evidence in available Netgate forum discussions that deleting the contents of /usr/local/pkg/tailscale/state resolves Tailscale's reboot persistence issue. Most reports focus on restarting the Tailscale service or re-running the 'tailscale up' command after reboot, rather than deleting state files. Deleting this directory could clear a corrupted state or force a fresh authentication. Still, it may also remove valid connections or authentication data, requiring you to re-authenticate Tailscale after reboot. This approach might temporarily resolve glitches caused by a stale state. It is still not an established solution for reboot persistence, and you should only try it with the expectation that re-authentication will likely be required afterward. Always back up any config or state you plan to remove, just in case."
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @subhan2k, I guess you only have issues with the domain name when trying to add the static route. What you could do is to add a static route like the following: us-bos.prod.surfshark.com resolves to 43.225.189.108 and 43.225.189.118. Regarding the static route in pfSense: destination network: 43.225.189.0 / 24 (/24 is the key here)
  • Snort fails to start on rule initialization

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    I had the same problem, and I've just been running without those rules. I'm guessing that this rule is responsible: 223 udp $EXTERNAL_NET any $HOME_NET [31335,35555] DDOS Trin00 Daemon to Master PONG message detected Edit: I disabled that rule, and it starts up fine. I guess the syntax on the port specification is incorrect.
  • Adding whilelisted domains to squidguard

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    Yes but wompy did a far more understandable version for me to keep it simple stupid. Once I understand the mechanics Im good to go.
  • How to access ntop with HTTPS/SSL?

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    @hadi57: add a rule to your firewall allowing port 3000. This will enable access to ntop, but only HTTP, I want to use HTTPS…
  • Snort not starting

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    Snort uses lots of memory on linux too.
  • Unblocking sites in squidguard bigblacklist

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    @wompy: Actually that link does have everything you need. Destinations is where your blacklist/whitelist additions will be. Once you save them then they will be added to the database. under default and ACL you will see the uptime destinations check boxes. Thats where you will specify to allow, or deny access. save and then apply on the general settings tab. +1 If you select Dest-rule and not checking deny - this is mean whitelist, and such rules will placed before block(deny) rules (exclude 'all' rule - this rule always last) .
  • Squid stops when using upstream proxy

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    hi, and thanks for the reply i already tried this, but didn't work, i don't know what's wrong. thanks again
  • Lcdproc wont start

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    The problem was the package, i built lcdproc and ran it manually, it works fine.
  • APC UPS USB on 1.2

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    Rather than downgrading, you can look the other way to see if that will help. pfSense 1.2.1 should be here by the end of the month, and will be based on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (rather than the 6.2-RELEASE used in 1.2). Click here for the development snapshots. The ISO works fine on my Dell Poweredge R200, which, being ICH9 based, will not work with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. However, it's not advised to use this in production.
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    @Valhalla1: trying to figure out if this was a serious 'feature' you are touting, or if I'm being leveled and this is not what you wanted/expected when installing those packages…  anyway u said u were trying to reduce the # of packages required, u can drop phpsysinfo as thats got nothing to do with nothing as far as intant message programs I think you are right, and you understood …. We will wh. the next release, might V1.2.1 will solve this issue....??? Rergards
  • I have had it! Four hours and I cannot get squidguard to block anything

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    This how I did it. install package squid and squidguard and go to console menu and press 8 to exit console menu. chown of /var/squid and /var/squidGuard to proxy:proxy    (ex. chown -R proxy:proxy /var/squid) create /download  directory cd /download pkg_add -r http://62.4.17.14/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/All/wget-1.10.2.tbz /usr/local/bin/wget http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz    ( at least you can see download progress using this way) click to Service>Proxy Content>General Setting in Blacklist URL = /download/shallalist.tar.gz see squidguard1.JPG click save button click Upload URL button click save button (just to make sure) although it says "SquidGuard service state: STARTED" just click apply button GOTO Default tab Follow my example using squidguard2.JPG and squidguard3.JPG or customize as you like but leave Default access [all] click save go to ACL tab and create new ACL (click the + button) for "Source IP Address" put your network address/Masks bit (not ip address) example squidguard4.JPG for "Destination" –--> customize as you like but leave Default access [all] and click save when finish. (squidguard5.JPG) go to General Stting tab and click apply button to restart squid (and squidGuard too) Note: Make sure in Service>Proxy server>Access Control –-->    the allow subnet is/are the same with (17)  (subnet = network address/Masks bit) The End BTW it took me about 3 to 4 months to figure this out by looking here and there in the forum.  :) [image: squidguard1.JPG] [image: squidguard1.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard2.JPG] [image: squidguard2.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard3.JPG] [image: squidguard3.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard4.JPG] [image: squidguard4.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard5.JPG] [image: squidguard5.JPG_thumb]
  • Package Manager unable to communicate to pfsense.com

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    Well, looks like it was something at the ISP side of things.  According to a tech rep, the IP assigned to our WAN interface was conflicting with someone else's subnet. They didn't elaborate.  The traceroute with the third hop stuttering isn't fixed but at least now I can get to the packages.
  • Snort fail update

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    Search before posting. There is already 3+ threads about this.
  • Block download

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    Can i know how to block user from downloading file from internet. can I use squidguard for this? Possible. Create Destination item with expression .*.(zip|rar|cab|mp3|avi|mpg|swf|exe|mpeg|mpv) ps not add to this .com - this blocked www.xxxx.com zone
  • Content Filtering while bridged

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    I hate to say it but for contentfiltering in transparent mode you might want to look at http://www.untangle.com/ to do this particular job.
  • SquidGuard.conf is not changed by pfSense GUI

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    @dvserg: @igorhmm: I've upload the blacklist again and changed the permissions.. now is working perfectly !!! You change permission manually or all changed auto? (This info need for solve possible bugs) I did manually: chmod -R 755 /var/db/squidGuard/usr /local/etc/squidGuard chown -R proxy:proxy /var/db/squidGuard/usr /local/etc/squidGuard thanks :D
  • Snort Doesn't Expire Blocked Hosts

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    The only entry in /etc/crontab is shown in the original post.  There is no expiretable entry.  I remember that used to be present in my snort installs in the 1.1 days. So snort is still using cron to expire rules?  I must have been mistaken that the expire mechanism was changed.
  • How to install frickin pptp proxy on pfSense 1.2-RELEASE?

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    @hoba: Frickin never worked the way we wanted it to work but ermal is working on a new patch for pptp that hopefully will fix pptp once and for all without the need of a package. This will be the best solution… I hope that this patch will be ready soon.
  • Poesia content filter

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    Thanks you. Very mach english symbols - big work for my translator. (  ;D )
  • 12 squidguard processes in top

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    @submicron: I hate to be that guy but you realize that the urlblacklist isn't free for download and that they expect you, on your honor, to pay for it, right?  If you are just blindly downloading and using it, especially for a commercial endeavor, you are most certainly violating their terms of service. Hi Submicron Good point, and yes, I AM paying for it, payed for 6 months right away :-) It is used for my home setup, to protect my children, but it's a very relevant point to emphasize that it's a service you should pay for!
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    I wish I knew what the difference is… I am planning to convert to "PBX in a Flash" soon to see if it will fix issues I am having with poor sound quality on IAX calls but I get occasional one-way audio with SIP and pfSense. the interesting thing is that the one-way audio goes away after about 10 seconds and it works for a little bit and then I get it again. The 10 seconds appears to be related to the externrefresh=10 setting. BTW... I am using voipstreet for SIP and IAX but I had the same one-way audio problems with Broadvoice a year or so ago. Mike
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