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      Bummer
      last edited by

      Hey Tommy, I haven't written, I thought I'd take a rest for a week. But I'm back to try and resolve the issue below.

      I'm still having problems whitelisting IPs. When I unblock a country, the people can gain access. But if I try whitelisting one IP for a country, they can't access anything. For instance, the IP 113.19.25.109 from India I put in as 113.19.25.109/32, but it didn't work. Am I doing something wrong?

      Any ideas?

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        tommyboy180
        last edited by

        @Bummer:

        Hey Tommy, I haven't written, I thought I'd take a rest for a week. But I'm back to try and resolve the issue below.

        I'm still having problems whitelisting IPs. When I unblock a country, the people can gain access. But if I try whitelisting one IP for a country, they can't access anything. For instance, the IP 113.19.25.109 from India I put in as 113.19.25.109/32, but it didn't work. Am I doing something wrong?

        Any ideas?

        Are you sure that ip is responding. It doesn't respond to ICMP and port 80 for me. The best way to see if whitelisting is working is to ping that address (without CIDR) in the pfsense console. If it's not blocked then you will have normal behavior. If it is blocked then pfsense will say "operation not permitted".
        Try that.

        -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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          Bummer
          last edited by

          I know that it's blocked, because when the country is blocked, so is the IP. The only way I can allow the IP to work is by unblocking country India. So when the country of India is blocked, the people using that Ip can't get in, even after I white-list it.

          The only way I can allow them access is to not block the country India.

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            Quasar
            last edited by

            @Bummer:

            On my version of pfSense it never has done anything. As long as Couinty Block says it's active, it is. I know that it blocks the countries, I just haven't been able to set it up to whitelist certain IPs. In that respect, it doesn't work.

            I mean, I can't start Country Block. Pressing "save/update" doesn't start CB.
            And how can I solve this problem (I see it every first time I visit 'Country Block' section web-interface):
            '/tmp/rules.debug:79: cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/lists/countries.txt": No such file or directory'

            Status of CB is always "not running".

            Sorry for my english..

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              ghm
              last edited by

              @Bummer:

              The only way I can allow them access is to not block the country India.

              Yes the list is not perfect - I just had a case where a German IP got blocked, had to allow European Union to let it access. Reverse IP Check clearly said it's a German IP. Works for me but shows that the lists may have some errors (blocks moving I guess).

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              • Spy AleloS
                Spy Alelo
                last edited by

                Anyone having issues when saving/committing countries? I had a write error and I was able to login to the shell and run 'mount -u -w /' to get country block to save the settings.

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                  tommyboy180
                  last edited by

                  @Spy:

                  Anyone having issues when saving/committing countries? I had a write error and I was able to login to the shell and run 'mount -u -w /' to get country block to save the settings.

                  Are you using embedded?

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

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                  • Spy AleloS
                    Spy Alelo
                    last edited by

                    yeah, but it always worked fine until now.

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                      tommyboy180
                      last edited by

                      Should be good!

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

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                      • chpalmerC
                        chpalmer
                        last edited by

                        CIDR.php wont load this evening so the install fails for me…

                        Ill try again later.

                        Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                          tommyboy180
                          last edited by

                          @chpalmer:

                          CIDR.php wont load this evening so the install fails for me…

                          Ill try again later.

                          Thank you. I'm having issue with the host. Pfsense does not host binary files anymore so it must be hosted somewhere.
                          Check back in 2 hours.

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

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                          • chpalmerC
                            chpalmer
                            last edited by

                            Thanks Tom!  Working now.    :)

                            Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                              cmb
                              last edited by

                              Tom, you can just send me or Jim P. binaries and we'll get them uploaded.

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                                tommyboy180
                                last edited by

                                @cmb:

                                Tom, you can just send me or Jim P. binaries and we'll get them uploaded.

                                Awesome!
                                I update the binary every so often. I hope that won't be an issue.

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

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                                • JSmoradaJ
                                  JSmorada
                                  last edited by

                                  I'm having problems getting Country Block to run. I keep getting the error Current Status = NOT running
                                  /tmp/rules.debug:102: cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/ipblocklist/lists/ipfw.ipfw": No such file or directory
                                  You are blocking 0 Networks.

                                  PfSense 2.0-RC3 (i386)
                                  built on Thu Jul 7 22:58:43 EDT 2011.

                                  One country selected and I tried the suggested workarounds (edited a single rule without changing it, saving, etc.). I also rebooted the firewall box…

                                  country_block.jpg
                                  country_block.jpg_thumb

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                                    darklogic
                                    last edited by

                                    I had a simalure issue. I did a simple reinstall of the package and everything worked from that point forward. Also did this issue start after a firmware update? I always have to reinstall Country Block after a firmware update.

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                                    • JSmoradaJ
                                      JSmorada
                                      last edited by

                                      it was the only package i installed after upgrading to 2.0. i did try reinstalling the package but get the same error.

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                                        cmb
                                        last edited by

                                        @tommyboy180:

                                        Awesome!
                                        I update the binary every so often. I hope that won't be an issue.

                                        No problem.

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                                          darklogic
                                          last edited by

                                          There were a couple of Times I had to uninstall the package, reboot, and then reinstall.

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                                            sekular
                                            last edited by

                                            http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,25732.msg173839.html#msg173839

                                            I have a similar problem. I have done a fresh install of 2.0 rc3 and installed country block. On the country block page it says that it is running and blocking networks and when I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/countryblock.sh from the shell it says that it is running. I tried to ping some ips in the blocked ranges and it is definitely working. But in the syslog it says that it is not running.

                                            root: Countryblock was found not running

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