Squidguard blacklist download not working 2.0-RC1
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Hi Everyone,
Please help!!! Ever since the update within squidguard where the blacklist was changed to it's own tab I have had the following issue. I just downloaded the latest PFSense 2.0 rc1 03/16/2011 and I just noticed when I go into Squidguard, enable blacklist, add the url "http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=bigblacklist", click save then apply then go to the blacklist tab and click the download button nothing happens. I have waited over 15 minutes without navigating away from page and still nothing. If I paste the url into firefox or IE8 the file downloads fine just not though Squidguard. Does anyone have any ideas? PLEASE.
Thank you,
ProBSD -
There are other lists you could try:
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I am having exactly the same problem. I subscribe to urlblacklist.com so really need to get this working. I have successfully installed Shalla's list http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz and the log window reported the download and installation successfully. As ProBSD reported nothing seems to be happening with the urlblacklist url.
Any ideas would be appreciated
Thanks
DJChem -
Hi DigitalJer,
I also subscribe to urlblacklist.com, just as DJChem. I have tried many lists and have found the list provided by urlblacklist.com to be the most complete and accurate per category. I would appreciate any assistance you or anyone else can provide.
Best regards,
Rick Mullis -
not working blacklist in squidguard - help :(
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2 probsd
With you url problem exists.
You can download manually, copy to pfsense as /tmp/blacklist.tar.gz, and from GUI doenload from this path.2 NegoroX
What are your problems? -
Download or put is /tmp/blacklist.tar.gz not a problem, and then nothing happens and there is no log ( tab log squidguard - it looks like the problem is the squidguard
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Download or put is /tmp/blacklist.tar.gz not a problem, and then nothing happens and there is no log ( tab log squidguard - it looks like the problem is the squidguard
After in Blacklist TAB enter /tmp/blacklist.tar.gz and press Download button.
Exists problem with URL's, what contains '? and &' symbols in the path.
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Thank you for the suggestion, however I have downloaded and copied bigblacklist.tar.gz to /tmp and entered /tmp/bigblacklist.tar.gz into the address field and when I click download, still, nothing happens. I have even tried to download the other packages and when i hit download nothing happens. i have waited for 15 mins in case it takes a while to decompress the gz file but still nothing. There is also nothing in any of the logs.
ProBSD
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Thank you for the suggestion, however I have downloaded and copied bigblacklist.tar.gz to /tmp and entered /tmp/bigblacklist.tar.gz into the address field and when I click download, still, nothing happens. I have even tried to download the other packages and when i hit download nothing happens. i have waited for 15 mins in case it takes a while to decompress the gz file but still nothing. There is also nothing in any of the logs.
ProBSD
Understandable :(. Have to wait for error correction
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Is there any way to manually decompress the gzip and put the folders into place so I can have the filter working?
ProBSD
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I am close. I can extract the black list from URLBlacklist and copy to /var/db/squidGuard but as soon as I click apply in the gui the directory disappears and I can not get it to list the blacklists in the squidguard gui. There has to be something to point to it maybe from the config.xml or maybe I need to enter something into the database?
Any ideas????
Thank you,
ProBSD -
Found this:
Initializing the blacklists –--
squidGuard -C all
chown -R proxy:proxy /var/db/squidGuard/*But when i run this it deletes the contents of /var/db/squidGuard.
ProBSD
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I got the manaul install for urlblacklist.com to work.
Download bigblacklist.tar.gz > copy to /var/tmp/ > in squidguard gui go to General tab and in Blacklist URL enter /var/tmp/bigblacklist.tar.gz > click save > go to Blacklist tab > click download, when "Blacklist update complete" appears at the bottom of window then go to Common ACL > click green arrow where it says "Target Rules List (click here)" and make the appropreiate changes > click save at bottom of page > go to General Tab and click apply. That's it. All works great. Now if maintainer can get SquidGuard to download from URLBlacklist directly we will be in great shape. And yes a setting to configure a background cron job to automatically download and update the blacklist at specified times would make this package fantastic!
ProBSD
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Yes! version pfSense-2.0-RC1-i386-20110317-0727.iso.gz - blacklist work :)
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I use the 64-bit version, but I will check tonight to see. Thanks for the heads up.
ProBSD
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…a setting to configure a background cron job to automatically download and update the blacklist at specified times would make this package fantastic!
Perhaps not such a capital idea.
This blacklist, is, yes, comprehensive and effective. HOWEVER it's also commercial. Not free. Pretty sure the maintainers don't mind a few downloads here and there, but regular downloads - as specified on their web page - are a subscription service. You have to pay for downloading at one-week intervals. Personally, I update it about once every six months (if that often), and even with that I'm considering tossing them a few $$. Does me fine, and if you watch the logs, you'll see what I mean.
I'd be careful to avoid drawing too much attention, aka hitting their download server at regular and frequent intervals - as they may tighten up their honour system and render it unavailable. That would make me a sad panda.
There are other freely available lists (mentioned earlier) that likely wouldn't care as much, as they don't expect a monetary return.
Just some food for thought :)
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This blacklist, is, yes, comprehensive and effective. HOWEVER it's also commercial. Not free….....
Ready blacklists for the lazy - I have created, analyzing the traffic of users. me free ;D
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Even though I may only download and update once, sometimes twice a month, I do pay an annual fee for 2 downloads per week, for my home network. This way I know I can help support that project and it will continue. Just as the $100.00 annual donation I provide for PFSense/FreeBSD.
I personally feel PFSense is the best firewall for home thru mid-size organizations, I don't have enterprise experience so I can't speak for that. I have it installed at about a dozen of my customer's locations including 2 police departments and 1 village hall. One police department is utilizing Squid and Squidguard with blacklists through captive portal and the chief regularly checks lightsquid to see where his employess navagate to. We have 3 LANs tied to his box using dual port server nics and it runs perfect. His original Sonicwall would only allow 7 Mbps and he just upgraded to a comcast cable internet with speed tests pushing 111Mbps so I put this in place and he loves it. He is now getting 93Mbps for his networks. Now that I can get his blacklist updated will have him sign up for urlblacklist too. If it were a scheduled cron job you could specify how often it should download and update as to not go beyond the subscription he chooses. I will have to manually update his as he would have a problem performing all of the steps.
ProBSD
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Most awesome!! Great to see ppl supporting open source projects.
Just had to do a quick morality check - nothing to see here, move along :)