@johnpoz [image: 1714948215266-1.jpg] This is my update URL list. https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt I get a whole list of IP addresses.

@BBcan177 Thanks! That did the trick. I appreciate the quick response.

Ok, thanks for a well written explanation. I don't expect to get complaints about "your network is wonky" on this topic.

Just an update that I'm still getting errors multiple times per day on the latest pfSense 24.03_1. I get this error: [87931:3] error: pythonmod: Exception occurred in function operate, event: module_event_new Followed by this error: [87931:3] error: pythonmod: python error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 1: invalid start byte The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pfb_unbound.py", line 1410, in operate tld = get_tld(qstate) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "pfb_unbound.py", line 584, in get_tld if qstate and qstate.qinfo and len(qstate.qinfo.qname_list) > 1: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SystemError: <built-in function _get_qname_components> returned a result with an exception set

@SteveITS Yes that has been enabled since long. [image: 1714231335338-pfsense-localdomain-firewall-pfblockerng-dnsbl.jpg] So thanks for pointing that one out, overlooked it, darn ;). will have a look at this log of all dns replies, so the not blocked events, in /var/log/pfblockerng/dns_reply.log

I confirm. Thanks to the people who quickly changed the code.

@Antibiotic should be resolved with the new pfblocker devel update

@pst right on appreciate it.

@DefenderLLC I wrote my note poorly...I meant, it wasn't linked on this page. I was on my phone and didn't dig into it, thanks for linking the reports.

pfBlocker has a setting for this which changes the order things are put in the rules. However, you could also set pfB to not be on the floating tab, and be per interface instead, then the floating rules you put in place will be processed first. [image: 1713978242585-e4f84476-91bd-4b2d-9bcd-fe7378455503-image.png]

@Antibiotic I don't know. After editing lines 391 and 1517, it has been working as normal for me since I first tried the Beta release, as well as for the 2 Release candidates to date.

@provels Simple. Use Brave. ABP still works too but its cat and mouse. If they time you out, go watch two ads and then reblock

@AlinaQ Did you try another internet browser?

Just updating this. Turned out to be a bad SmartTV blocklist causing the error.

@SteveITS said in pfBlockerNG v.3.2.0_8 upgrade (from _7) on 23.09.1 (stable pfSense+) caused blank "MaxMind Account ID" and problems: 3.2.0_8 is the current version for pfSense Plus. (and has the account key) Ah my false he is on 23.09.01, I was over reading. I got on 24.03 with version _09 the errors, and were adding the 6 digit account ID and all was right.