I had already rebooted once, but I rebooted again, just as I was getting ready to do a full reinstall and was able to add back my custom options and dns is working. The 'dnsbl' line happens to fall on line 108, so I guess it was still cached? I think everything is normal now... having been struggling with this all afternoon...

@Ojisang said in pfblockerNG Whitelist Clarification: I wanted to add an alias in the rules using the pfblockerNG whitelist but I couldn't. Add an Alias to the rules using the whitelist? OK now I'm completely confused. Could you please detail, what you're trying to achieve?`To me it sounds like you're trying it the wrong way?

@Gertjan said in DNSBL - Alerts not showing IF or SOURCE: As already said back in 2017 : @BBcan177 said in DNSBL - Alerts not showing IF or SOURCE: This is fixed and will be in the next release… Install pfBlockerNG-devel

Thank you so much! I totally have forwarding on. Furthermore, I realized that specific lists were super trigger happy so I will be debugging sources one by one I guess

@jakes Yes this will be possible with the upcoming Unbound python integration, but this "profile" feature is not currently completed. I agree that this will be a great feature to have including scheduling times for rules to apply to different profiles... There are some screenshots and info of the upcoming version on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/pfBlockerNG

Thanks for the answer. I ended up just leaving it to run the CRON job for a day rather than forcing the update. It cleared itself up. Sorry for the unsatisfying resolution!

@damelloman said in Pfblocker … is this normal after 3 hours of uptime: I kept doing the wrong thing and "blocking the whole world" and didn't know HOW to do this. Thank you all for helping me understand! :) Smarter not harder! We all as newbies did this only to learn later that it made no sense.

Solved.

Ok Thanks

:( maybe it not working with IE too?) What dev console is saying?

@snore It depends on how many entries you want to display as well as the size of the log files. On my pfsense I show 150 Alerts for IP and DNSBL, I keep 100 000 lines for both IP and DNSBL log files. It takes 10 seconds to display.

Unbound 1.9.3 will allow multiple Python modules: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/pull/6

@dragoangel That's my same thoughts as well because when I had setup mine, I didn't have to do anything special to access Google services.

@dragoangel thanks a lot it works now.

Ok this is werid, I did update after update, and reload. Decided to give up for the day and hit it tomorrow, woke up this morning to get back at it, it is working now. I did nothing from yesterday, the only thing is the cron job probably ran and that fixed it. No clue what else is in the cron job, but all has green lights and is blocking what is in my lists.

I'm not a web guy these days, but it's only blocking domains so I would think that any constructs the page is supposed to render, like frames and containers, will still be there. I suspect that it only works for static images and other simple content.

Spoke too soon, I removed ntopng, snort, darkstat and avahi and I'm still getting the IP's in pi-hole. My thoughts are not to use pi-hole or what I'm doing is wrong in some way. Also nothing connected on the LAN side at all - laptop off. I think the obvious answer is Pfblocker or some weird interaction with pi-hole. Why I think this, I turn on another laptop WIFI'd to the router (so it's on the WAN side of pfsense and pi-hole starts seeing these IP's. I'll take pi-hole out of the loop and put 9.9.9.9 into pfsense in the system/general DNS

@BBcan177 said in [Solved] Ad-Blocking broken after VM Host reboot: @provels said in Ad-Blocking after VM Host reboot: @BBcan177 Yes, that must be it. Using RAM for /var and /tmp. Thanks for a great package! Thanks for the feedback! Disabling Ramdisks will solve that issue. Or just run a "Force Reload - All" after each reboot to get it all back. Would there be a way to add a script to automate "reload all" post-reboot when using RAM disks? I also use XigmasNAS (was NAS4Free) and they have a GUI option for that (adding pre- and postinit scripts), but I would have no idea how to add that to pfSense. I'm pretty BSDumb. Maybe add /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php cron >> /var/log/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.log somewhere? EDIT - Found this. I'll try. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/executing-commands-at-boot-time.html