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      tommyboy180
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      @darklogic:

      ok, so basically one way or another they will get blocked even though SNORT seen the incoming connection first. I just never noticed this before. Is it because the CountryBlock is sending information to the logs now?

      Thanks,

      No the logs are separate. It's just the order that the rules are handled.

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

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        darklogic
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        Ok, well thanks for explanning to me on what was happening.

        Take Care,

        Matt

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          tommyboy180
          last edited by

          @darklogic:

          Ok, well thanks for explanning to me on what was happening.

          Take Care,

          Matt

          np

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

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            jerrygoldsmith
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            First off, this is an AWESOME package, thank you for putting in the time and effort to make it what it is!

            Question - mine will randomly report 'not running'.  My DSL provider is AT&T and they change my IP randomly - sometimes twice a day (not the modem, its a result of something else they are experimenting with here in town).  I think this is the cause, but I'm not sure.  Logs don't report anything of interest, but that seems to be the correlation.

            Is there a way to auto-start it, or to keep it from needing to be restarted every time this happens?

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              tommyboy180
              last edited by

              @jerrygoldsmith:

              First off, this is an AWESOME package, thank you for putting in the time and effort to make it what it is!

              Question - mine will randomly report 'not running'.  My DSL provider is AT&T and they change my IP randomly - sometimes twice a day (not the modem, its a result of something else they are experimenting with here in town).   I think this is the cause, but I'm not sure.  Logs don't report anything of interest, but that seems to be the correlation.

              Is there a way to auto-start it, or to keep it from needing to be restarted every time this happens?

              You can have it start via a cron job. I'm not sure why it stops even if your IP changes, the only thing that causes the package to stop is a change in the firewall configuration. What you can do have a cron job run every minute or 5 minutes to run the package. That would keep it running all the time .

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

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                mgc6288
                last edited by

                @jerrygoldsmith:

                Is there a way to auto-start it, or to keep it from needing to be restarted every time this happens?

                What I did is after I installed the Cron package, I created an auto start like this:

                minute: 0
                hour: *
                mday: *
                month: *
                wday: *
                who: root
                command: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/countryblock.sh

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                  jerrygoldsmith
                  last edited by

                  Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

                  Like I said, I don't know if it's the IP change but it seems to happen about that time.  I put in the cron job, thanks a bunch!

                  And thanks again for the wonderful package and all the hard work you put into it!

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                    deltaend
                    last edited by

                    tommyboy180, when Traffic Shaping and country block are installed on the same pfsense firewall, it causes a 404 to be displayed when you attempt to view the traffic shaping panel and Country Block fails to run with an invalid syntax error.

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                      tommyboy180
                      last edited by

                      @deltaend:

                      tommyboy180, when Traffic Shaping and country block are installed on the same pfsense firewall, it causes a 404 to be displayed when you attempt to view the traffic shaping panel and Country Block fails to run with an invalid syntax error.

                      I found a quick fix and will be pushing an update soon.

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

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                        deltaend
                        last edited by

                        I love you.

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                          jsmwalker
                          last edited by

                          Hi there,

                          Great package, just wanted to check which interfaces this creates the rules on?

                          Cheers

                          J

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                            Supermule Banned
                            last edited by

                            Heyy Tommy….:) Was I spot on or what??? :D

                            See ya ;)

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                              tommyboy180
                              last edited by

                              @jsmwalker:

                              Hi there,

                              Great package, just wanted to check which interfaces this creates the rules on?

                              Cheers

                              J

                              This affects all interfaces.

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

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                                jward
                                last edited by

                                Hi Tommy, this is a really great package - thanks for putting time into developing it! ;D

                                If possible in some future release it would be great to be able to apply the country block settings per interface, even better if it could be down to the Virtual IP level.  I'm sure like many others, we have various services running on different Virtual IPs, some need to be open to the world, but others could be very heavily limited to 1 or 2 countries so being able to block countries down to the Virtual IP level would really help.

                                Thanks again,
                                Jon

                                Jonathan Ward
                                pfSense 1.2.3 - HP DL360 G4

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                                  jroberts31xray
                                  last edited by

                                  (if im posting in the wrong area just let me know)

                                  Thanks Tommy for a great package, i am a huge fan and it and deployed this on every firewall i build…....ok now of for the question ;D

                                  i have a Dell power edge 1850 dual xeons 3.0's and 2g ram and about 35gb of disk space running 1.2.3. Release.  (Mind you this is first time i have seen this) We had the original config for this on a "Alix" board and just moved the config file over to the larger servers on a fresh install.

                                  Issue: Committing the country's to the block list is fine however when i Enable Country Block i receive the following error:

                                  Current Status = NOT running
                                  /tmp/rules.debug:44: syntax error
                                  You are blocking 0 Networks

                                  if anyone in the community has any ideas please let me know....Thanks again.....

                                  Image Below.

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                                    tommyboy180
                                    last edited by

                                    @jroberts31xray:

                                    (if im posting in the wrong area just let me know)

                                    Thanks Tommy for a great package, i am a huge fan and it and deployed this on every firewall i build…....ok now of for the question ;D

                                    i have a Dell power edge 1850 dual xeons 3.0's and 2g ram and about 35gb of disk space running 1.2.3. Release.  (Mind you this is first time i have seen this) We had the original config for this on a "Alix" board and just moved the config file over to the larger servers on a fresh install.

                                    Issue: Committing the country's to the block list is fine however when i Enable Country Block i receive the following error:

                                    Current Status = NOT running
                                    /tmp/rules.debug:44: syntax error
                                    You are blocking 0 Networks

                                    if anyone in the community has any ideas please let me know....Thanks again.....

                                    Image Below.

                                    Just to make sure do you have the latest version of countryblock installed?
                                    Also what other pages are you running? Traffic shaping?

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

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                                      jroberts31xray
                                      last edited by

                                      Version 0.1.4 on the C.B. and i am not running shaping, packages listed below: btw we are running the FW transparent.

                                      Package Name  Category  Package Version
                                      Country Block Firewall 0.1.4
                                      Dashboard System         0.8.8
                                      IP-Blocklist Firewall         0.2.2

                                      thanks for the FAST reply.    ;)

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                                        Supermule Banned
                                        last edited by

                                        Then its not a firewall any more and doesnt do any blocking….;)

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                                          jroberts31xray
                                          last edited by

                                          We got it…thanks again Tommy, great package.

                                          it was a bad config file......Thanks

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                                            tommyboy180
                                            last edited by

                                            @jroberts31xray:

                                            We got it…thanks again Tommy, great package.

                                            it was a bad config file......Thanks

                                            Thank you for your support!

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

                                            Please support pfBlocker | File Browser | Strikeback

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