Country Block

Trufelli · Feb 9, 2011, 6:19 PM

Unselect all countries and comited… Then I just select one and comited again... When i did this, i saw that the checkbox for "Enable" becomes unchecked... So, I checked the "Enable" box and saved... Then it start runing normaly... To test, I select another country, and comited... The "Enable" becomes uncheked again... I turnet on the CB again and was runing fine... Now I checked all countries that i wanted and comited... Again, the "Enable" becomes uncheked... I checked it and start normaly...

Current Status = Running

You are blocking 109524 Networks

Don't know what happening , because i tried do that befoure posting here...

Let's see if the BC works fine now!!

Tanks for your help and job!! Its a realy nice Package!!!

:D

g4m3c4ck · Feb 14, 2011, 9:42 PM

FYI. I just upgraded my pf2.0 vm to RC1. I was having problems with b5 so I decided to update it. I reset pfsense to factory defaults from console and I noticed on the boot afterwards the the country block script was still present. I was not able to access the webgui to remove country block prior to upgrading.

After installing countryblock on the new build I get this.

/tmp/rules.debug:74 Cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/countries-white.txt" No such file or directory

I know this is no real big bug but I just thought you should know

g4m3c4ck · Feb 14, 2011, 10:25 PM

I am having tons of issues with RC1 not related to CB. However, my system.log is reporting missing dependencies with RC1. I will look into this further and keep you updated.

tommyboy180 · Feb 14, 2011, 10:32 PM

@g4m3c4ck:

I am having tons of issues with RC1 not related to CB. However, my system.log is reporting missing dependencies with RC1. I will look into this further and keep you updated.

I see a lot of packages that do the same thing. I'm not sure what generates that but ignoring those errors doen't hurt. Let me know if you narrow it down to something. I looked into it a while ago and came back empty handed. I would love to fix it if it's possible.
Thanks for the heads up!

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 4:34 PM

Country Block , blocked?

To help us defray burgeoning costs, we have temporarily suspended automated downloads of Access Control Lists. We would like to restore these or move to a members only delivery system. Please help us by donating now:

Does this affect your script? If I have to download manually, what format should I grab…

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 4:40 PM

@dlawley:

Country Block , blocked?

To help us defray burgeoning costs, we have temporarily suspended automated downloads of Access Control Lists. We would like to restore these or move to a members only delivery system. Please help us by donating now:

Does this affect your script? If I have to download manually, what format should I grab…

There is an updated countryblock package that I released several days ago. Update and it should work.

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 5:02 PM

just updated to 0.2.0,

/usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/lists/countries.txt is 0 bytes

It says I have have 11 of 252 selected but 0 blocked, indicates it is running

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 5:08 PM

@dlawley:

just updated to 0.2.0,

/usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/lists/countries.txt is 0 bytes

It says I have have 11 of 252 selected but 0 blocked, indicates it is running

What pfsense version?

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 5:11 PM

Sorry did not put that in the original message, well seasoned 1.2.3. Just did a reboot but no joy. countries.txt in the list folder still 0

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 5:14 PM

That's really strange. Alright give me 5 min to check on my 1.2.3 test vm.

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 5:15 PM

Anything look out of order?

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 5:21 PM

That looks right. I just tested on my 1.2.3 VM. I uninstalled my CB package, rebooted, and then installed the package version 2.0. Make sure CIDR.tar.gz is downloaded during the install.

I checked Korea, committed, then checked enabled and hit Save/Update.

All worked fine. Try my method and let me know what happens.

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 5:30 PM

Thanks, was just looking and first glance it appears that the fetch lines are commented out in countryblock.php

lunch time, brain food… tackle this after lunch

//Process each list URL, Extract, and put in DIR lists
exec("mkdir lists");
foreach ($lines as $line) {
//echo("fetch -o lists http://www.countryipblocks.net/e_country_data/{$line}_cidr.txt");
//Fetch countries from server
//exec("fetch -o lists/temp http://127.0.0.1//packages/countryblock/CIDR/{$line}_cidr.txt");
//Pull from local file since https or http on other ports may be used
exec("cat CIDR/{$line}_cidr.txt >> lists/countries.txt");
//exec("fetch -o lists/temp http://www.countryipblocks.net/e_country_data/{$line}_cidr.txt");
//Remove cat lists/temp since fetch is not used
//Thank you g4m3c4ck, 'He got a real pretty mouth ain't he', 1 Feb 2011
//exec("cat lists/temp >> lists/countries.txt");
$filename = basename($line);
//Extract list
//exec("gzip -d lists/$filename");
}

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 5:57 PM

The fetch was the old way to pull the country files directly from countryipblocks.net but that's what created the bandwidth problem for them.

So now the cat CIDR is the solution. It pulls the country ip blocks from a local file that it download during package install. That's why it's kind of weird it's not working for you since it's so simple.

dlawley · Feb 15, 2011, 6:39 PM

Something must have been hanging around. Had to remove, then reinstall. Now have CIDR folder and have networks blocked.

Thanks for the help, its better help than we get around here for paid support…

Supermule · Feb 15, 2011, 6:59 PM

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:)

@dlawley:

Something must have been hanging around. Had to remove, then reinstall. Now have CIDR folder and have networks blocked.

Thanks for the help, its better help than we get around here for paid support…

tommyboy180 · Feb 15, 2011, 8:40 PM

@dlawley:

Something must have been hanging around. Had to remove, then reinstall. Now have CIDR folder and have networks blocked.

Thanks for the help, its better help than we get around here for paid support…

Well thank you for the compliment. I try to provide half decent support. Check out tomschaefer.org/pfsense
I created it to try to help more people that needed a way to directly contact me.

XIII · Feb 15, 2011, 11:09 PM

um..the forum is free support, no paid support is offered "here" on the forum. If you want paid support see here:
https://portal.pfsense.org/index.php/support-subscription

The support here is really great, one of the top ones compared to other forums. tommyboy180 is excellent at providing support for his packages, he is really fast at getting back to you.

tommyboy180 · Feb 16, 2011, 1:57 AM

@XIII:

um..the forum is free support, no paid support is offered "here" on the forum. If you want paid support see here:
https://portal.pfsense.org/index.php/support-subscription

The support here is really great, one of the top ones compared to other forums. tommyboy180 is excellent at providing support for his packages, he is really fast at getting back to you.

Thank you. I appreciate the kind words. I'm sure many other package managers are just the same.

ghm · Feb 16, 2011, 9:12 PM

Hi,

I use 1.2.3 embedded. Country Block apparently installed ok and I could commit countries + enable but sadly Country Block drops into disabled pretty often (stays on for maybe an hour or so).

One thing I have seen: Under the "Whitelist" tab (where I have not added any IPs), there is this message:

Warning: fopen(countries-white.txt): failed to open stream: Read-only file system in /usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/whitelist.php on line 134 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/whitelist.php on line 135 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/whitelist.php on line 140

Any chance to get this going on embedded? I really like the package…

Thanks1