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      tommyboy180
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      Something is regenerating your firewall settings I think. Every time rules.debug is run your country block package stops running. I have been running country block for a month now without errors or interruption.

      Start to eliminate variables. Disable packages and services and start to narrow it down. If you want to help me get to the bottom of this now email me your config and I can probably give you an answer within the hour.

      -Tom Schaefer
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        JustinHoMi
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        Ok I'll start disabling packages and see what happens. If I can't figure it out I'll send you my config.

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          JustinHoMi
          last edited by

          I disabled everything I could and no luck. What sections of the config should I send you?

          Thanks for offering to look at it for me.

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            tommyboy180
            last edited by

            If you don't mind just send me the entire config.

            -Tom Schaefer
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              JustinHoMi
              last edited by

              That's fine. Just got to edit the config. I'll send it to you in a sec.

              Edit: Sent. Thanks!

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                Supermule Banned
                last edited by

                No probs here either. :)

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                  SP0
                  last edited by

                  @tommyboy180:

                  @csnf:

                  I get file system errors trying to write.

                  I can look further into this, I usually don't support nanobsd because of special exceptions I make.
                  The script is getting hung up on creating two files, countries.txt and lists/countries.txt. Perhaps you can make these files and modify the permissions so they cannot be removed.

                  Were you able to look further into this - or can you provide a little more detail on how to fix?  I have the same issue (pfSense 1.2.3 on Alix).  Thanks.

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                    mgc6288
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                    I must be doing something wrong, or am finding the wrong IP of spammed emails.  First, I have nearly every country checked, including the Dominican Republic.  I've still received a few emails and my mail server separates them and lists their IP in the subject line for me.  Recently I found one with an IP of 200.42.239.139 which as stated here:

                    http://ip-address-lookup-v4.com/lookup.php?ip=200.42.239.139

                    Points to the Dominican Republic.  Am I finding a fake IP from the sender?  Thanks.

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                      Supermule Banned
                      last edited by

                      Depending on what the spammer uses as relay….

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                        kpa
                        last edited by

                        Look at the last ip address before your own email server in the received headers, that's the IP address checked by country block.

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                          tommyboy180
                          last edited by

                          Version 1.4 released.

                          Added logging option.
                          Added missing country. (India is in the top 10 list)
                          Fixed misspellings.
                          Changed installation process.

                          -Tom Schaefer
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                            mgc6288
                            last edited by

                            @tommyboy180:

                            Version 1.4 released.

                            Added logging option.
                            Added missing country. (India is in the top 10 list)
                            Fixed misspellings.
                            Changed installation process.

                            After some looking around…is the logging feature located under status --> system logs --> Firewall?

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                              tommyboy180
                              last edited by

                              Yes, system logs -> Firewall.
                              I am still working on a way to filter what is logged only by the package. That requires a lvl 67 programmer and I am only lvl 66.

                              Right now the only way to tell if something is blocked by the package is to click the red x on the logged event.

                              -Tom Schaefer
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                                darklogic
                                last edited by

                                Came across some issues. I found you may need to uninstall the 1.3 package and then reboot you system after the uninstall. Then install the new 1.4 package and reboot again. I was not able to get the new version to start until after I did the following. This is just something to try if anyone else happens to get this same issue for what ever reason.

                                Other than that, the package is working great. Good job on implementing the logging. I have a feeling level 67 will soon come about.

                                Thanks again for all the hard work tommyboy180

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                                  deltaend
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                                  Thank you for the new version Tommyboy180.

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                                    tommyboy180
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                                    @deltaend:

                                    Thank you for the new version Tommyboy180.

                                    Thank you!

                                    -Tom Schaefer
                                    SuperMicro 1U 2X Intel pro/1000 Dual Core Intel 2.2 Ghz - 2 Gig RAM

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                                      louis-m
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                                      has anybody got this going on embedded yet? i'm getting hit with terrible spam and this would come in extremely handy.
                                      i've changed my embedded to rw, did the install but it still complains. i've tried to create countries.txt etc and they get deleted the minute i try to commit countries in the gui.
                                      i'd really appreciate some help with this as i've had to close down my mail server to stop spam coming in (even with spam assasin!)

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                                        louis-m
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                                        i got it going but could the author or anybody else let me know if i am doing anything wrong or opening a hole as i am not a coder.
                                        i simply edited the config file like:

                                        $N = count($aCountry);

                                        $myFile = "countries.txt";
                                        conf_mount_rw();
                                        $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+');
                                        $output = "**You selected $N Countries";

                                        for($i=0; $i < $N; $i++)
                                        {
                                        //echo($aCountry[$i] . " ");
                                        fwrite($fh, $aCountry[$i] . "\n");
                                        conf_mount_rw();
                                        }
                                        echo("");
                                        }
                                        }

                                        and away it went. it's running ok now. thank you.**

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                                          tommyboy180
                                          last edited by

                                          @louis-m:

                                          i got it going but could the author or anybody else let me know if i am doing anything wrong or opening a hole as i am not a coder.
                                          i simply edited the config file like:

                                          $N = count($aCountry);

                                          $myFile = "countries.txt";
                                          conf_mount_rw();
                                          $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+');
                                          $output = "**You selected $N Countries";

                                          for($i=0; $i < $N; $i++)
                                          {
                                          //echo($aCountry[$i] . " ");
                                          fwrite($fh, $aCountry[$i] . "\n");
                                          conf_mount_rw();
                                          }
                                          echo("");
                                          }
                                          }

                                          and away it went. it's running ok now. thank you.**

                                          Awesome! You saved me a couple hours on my day off. I will make the changes and commit this in the CountryBlock package and the IPBlocklist package.

                                          -Tom Schaefer
                                          SuperMicro 1U 2X Intel pro/1000 Dual Core Intel 2.2 Ghz - 2 Gig RAM

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                                            louis-m
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                                            hey, no probs! thanks for your efforts and what a great package!
                                            i still can't get the logging to work (tick box etc) so there must be another bit in there to change to rw

                                            think the last bit above is meant to be "ro" instead of "rw"

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