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    Can not delete alias

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      xbipin
      last edited by

      there is no such rule ever i created called dns pass nor is there anything at all called dns pass, no idea y but i always had this issue of not being able to delete alias groups untill i rename them and then delete it.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        Sure it isn't used in a NAT rule or firewall rule?

        Perhaps it's used on a rule that is on an interface that is inactive/deleted (IPsec, pptp, openvpn, etc)

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          xbipin
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          i never had a dns pass rule or anything named by that ever till date since 1.2.3, i never used any other interface nor ever tired to configure pptp, ipsec or openvpn ever coz most i have no experience with nor did i ever get curios enough to test it out. just have one lan, one wan and one opt and wan is pppoe, thats about it, using the same since 1.2.3, i always though that pfsense was using something inside itself called dns pass.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            If you download a backup of your config, is there anything in there with that label?

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              xbipin
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              as a matter of fact it shows this

                      <rule><type>pass</type>
                          <max-src-nodes><max-src-states><statetimeout><statetype>keep state</statetype>
                          <os><protocol>tcp/udp</protocol>
                          <source>
              
              <address>3rdfloor23</address>
              
                          <destination><any><port>53</port></any></destination></os></statetimeout></max-src-states></max-src-nodes></rule> 
              
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                xbipin
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                it seems there r many such entries which never show up in the gui

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  The rule has no interface, which means it was associated with an interface that is no longer present on your system. As I said before it could be IPsec, PPTP, OpenVPN, the PPPoE server, etc.

                  We may need to delete those rules instead of leaving them orphaned in the XML. If the interface association is lost there's no way to get back to them in the GUI.

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                    xbipin
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                    i have deleted them and corrected a lot more xml coz i have been using this config since 1.2.3 but only upgraded to 2.0 when upgrade kept things functional.
                    i guess ill have to sit and setup a new system from scratch just to make sure such orphaned xml is not present which affects other functionality as well. i wish there is a utility to fix such messed up xml config or at least correct it.

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                      There is no utility, but I suppose it might be possible to whip up a GUI tab to at least list/delete orphaned rules if we don't just delete them.

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                        xbipin
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                        bytheway i also get this on boot in the recent snaps

                        Configuring CRON…No matching processes were found
                        done.

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          That looks familiar, like there is already a ticket or thread about it. Either way it's a separate problem so I'd search on that error and start a new thread to see if anyone else gets it.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                            I opened a ticket for the alias (really a rule) bug.

                            http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/906

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