@szympro My use of pfBlocker has been for it to download feeds, and I use Alias Native for it to load the feed into a firewall table/alias for use in rules. Typically, for geo IP lists. I see the "Whois" option does say "Convert a Domain name into its respective IP addresses" but I don't know how "whois" would do that...whois normally looks up the registrant or perhaps DNS servers for a domain. Perhaps @BBcan177 can explain further. I guess if you can duplicate it you can report it as a bug. It just seems an odd feature to have if it already exists in pfSense, and oddly named...sounds more like "DNS lookup" than "whois."

@mohdikramsaif [image: 1642085526405-45538466-c3ab-4f90-b758-a2f14f6e70ad-image.png] What is your pfBlockerng version ?? This is the latest version : [image: 1642085620150-5b0c6455-e2b8-4604-a52f-4098f262ace5-image.png] Your questions : The DNSBL feeds activated will "block" the access to the listed sites. (not only websites). Add "web.whatsapp.com" and all other whatsapp.com related domains to a list and you're ok. There was a whatsapp forum post no so long in the past. Keep in mind that whatsapp == facebook so you might have to block entire "AS". pfBlockerng had possibilities to include exclude certain LAN devces. See the very old forum posts about how to do so. The newer (from yesterday) pfBlockerng-devel uses a simpler approach : [image: 1642088201578-a85a8af5-b7ac-46c1-95d6-5aa9eefe388a-image.png] @mohdikramsaif said in pfblockerng: Kindly share your suggestion Have a look (abuse the search button) most of not all questions are already answered on the pfblockerng support forum.

@dma_pf thanks for the suggestion. With openDNS I cannot make filters for specific internal network segments. The OpenDNS category restrictions will block some categories the grown ups need to access.

@dma_pf i'm running the latest version of both.

@user12345 said in pfBlockerNG won't complete cron update/reload of DNSBL feeds: If you do an uninstall of non-devel version with keep settings checked and install the devel will it pull the settings and feeds over or trash those? It's been a long time since I upgraded to the devel version so my memory is a bit foggy. But in general, if you're going to uninstall pfblocker and want to save the settings in the current configuration you need to check this setting in Pfblocker/General: [image: 1641492931980-645d71a7-ecd6-44b6-9a8e-407637743220-image.png] Now, whether or not those saved settings load right back into the devel version I just can't remember for sure. But if you decide to try it, make sure that you do a complete backup of your whole system - Diagnostics/Backup & Restore. That way you could always roll back to where you where if the setting don't apply correctly.

@scop said in pfBlockerng-devel Certificate Error: I would like to know if it is possible to redirect to another website like google (if the link is in HTTPS) or just show a message that he can't access to this web site instead of certificate error like in HTTP ? There is not a way to do this. When a browser goes to an encrypted HTTPS site the first thing the browser is doing is verifying that the response is coming back from the server it intended to communicate with. It does this by verifying the security certificate of the server it communicates with. If the certificate matches the server it loads the page, if not, it will not load the page and will display the HTTPS (ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR). Because of that, if pfblocker attempts to serve up a an error page (classic MITM) the browser will not be able to verify the the page from pfblocker matches the security certificate of the intended server and the browser will block it.

@quasaur Cut it off

@gertjan Thanks for the feedback, good information and insights. I will see how I get on :)

By shut down automaticaly I meant, that it looked like this: [image: 1640539246440-bildschirmfoto_2021-12-26_18-15-06.png] But as I noticed now, that was, because I forgot to do a Reload after changing to Python Mode. I now was able to get pfBlockerNG-devel runing as it should in the virtualbox, so everything is good so far.

@nogbadthebad I made this text file on my ftp server [image: 1640461824688-f4df1815-5ae8-445c-bfec-8c87254e489d-image.png] Then i made a entry like this: [image: 1640461876081-595dc8d3-df02-4e00-9299-40e7b31c3d60-image.png] Finalize with: [image: 1640461923450-e7991d88-fd37-46a2-855a-96d0639add15-image.png] Seems to work: [image: 1640461989202-7cf3a590-f16b-4cc9-b67e-e14864fe469b-image.png]

[image: 1640201255410-dnsbl.png] category filtering not working when I enter custom domain it works, could you please help me do block things category wise

@fireodo Thanks! You've made my day [image: 1639296579188-41ce1e68-1e71-41ca-b54d-ecfc5b3740a6-grafik.png] Fine sunday! @Gertjan @fireodo Great community support!

That error message indicates the GUI code attempted to iterate an empty array variable without verifying the variable is actually defined as an array. My first guess, since the error is from the alerts log, is that the alerts log file is empty and the code is not properly initializing the array when an empty alerts file is encountered. This is a problem that needs to be addressed by the pfBlockerNG-devel package maintainer. It should also get a bug report created at the Redmine Site here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense.

@p_bear I don’t know who to blame but if a 3rd party browser works but Safari does not it seems that Netgate is not to blame. It would be nice to know why it does not work so we have something useful to complain to Apple about. It used to work, I forget if it first broke when Yosemite was released?

@jegr Read pfBlockerNG IP Reputation It has a good ending. The 'Reputation' tab is not available by default. "Things" need to happen so it can be presented.

Thanks all. I am going to try it with what I have and then see how it goes.