I disabled many things of pfBlocker NG (which is the latest version)
I think my guess was right, the rules were not correctly (re-)loaded because of the IPv4 + IPv6 Alias which pfBlockerNG (DNSBL) automatically generates.
Editing these aliases is evil (and does not really work permanently) so I disabled the DNSBL feature and now everything (re-)loads fine....
@marc05 yes indeed, if the rule exists it is checked against it, unless you match with a quick rule then it stops matching further at that point. Advantage of floating rules you can make them quick rules. If you want to reduce the checks you would want to prune rules or try consolidate them etc. or structure quick rules for known good traffic.
@stewartResolver Live Sync is using unbound-control(8) to modify unbound internal database instead or restarting unbound.
Glad to hear that. Is anything lost or does anything change that we would see? Or is it all back-end and everything presents the same to the users? I assume we check that box and all we see is that Unbound doesn't restart as often.
I have this issue also with pfblocker and the Amazon app (Android). I whitelist the domains that I saw in the report log but I still have the dog screen come up stating "UH-OH Something went wrong on our end." What's odd is that this only happens when searching and it only happens when searching certain terms. Has anyone found the exact domains to whitelist? (aan.amazon.com did not do it for me)
If you have nothing running on 80, it shouldn't be a problem - but that alias is every IP on your firewall. For such a rule it would be bad practice to use such an alias.
Would you mind PM the domain your using for acme - curious to see who the SOA is for this domain.
2021-07-09 19:49:33,438|ERROR| [pfBlockerNG]: Failed to load: pfb_py_zone.txt: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1176: ordinal not in range(128)
2021-07-09 19:49:40,059|ERROR| [pfBlockerNG]: Failed to load: pfb_py_whitelist.txt: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3755: ordinal not in range(128
With an editor like Notepad++ you could fine it easily.
@steveits
Thank you. Indeed this works nicely.
Probably you overwrote that change with the upgrade to 3.0.0_16 ?
If this code change will be added in the next version, I suggest to also add a hint that an empty license key will deactivate all GeoIP auto updates...