Country Block

tommyboy180

@nipstech:

I'm having trouble getting the email notifications to work. When I hit the "test" button the firewall throws the following error:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to none://smtpout.secureserver.net:80 (Unable to find the socket transport "none" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in /usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/class.smtp.php on line 122 Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Using 2.0-RC3 (i386)
built on Fri Jul 22 22:35:57 EDT 2011

The only other packages I have installed are cron and spamd.

Thanks,
Jon

Try using SSL to connect to your SMTP host.

JSmorada

I tried that. Don't have a self-cert though so if that's necessary I can generate one and try again. I'm trying to smtp through my domain provider who uses authentication and recommends port 80 to get past port blocking when I'm on the road.

cjbujold

Two issue's

Having same problem that country block will not install on the latest (Friday 12 August 2011) version of PFsense. It hangs at :CIDR.php failed. and then uninstalls the package. Any solution?
I have 2 wan connections does Country block work with multi-Wans?

Thanks

cjb

Macom2007

Same here. CIDR.php hangs

tommyboy180

Try installing the package again. CIDR.php should not hang this time.

ljbowdish

I am NEW to this. We installed pfsense, with no packages.
I really need to install country block, because SPAM is killing me.
I am running 2.0 - RC1 (i386).
It says there is an update available.
Should I install the update before I install country block?
How often does the cron job to start country block have to run?
I saw the cron job package, is it simple to use??
Thank you for your time.

tommyboy180

@ljbowdish:

I am NEW to this. We installed pfsense, with no packages.
I really need to install country block, because SPAM is killing me.
I am running 2.0 - RC1 (i386).
It says there is an update available.
Should I install the update before I install country block?
How often does the cron job to start country block have to run?
I saw the cron job package, is it simple to use??
Thank you for your time.

Update your pfsense install. Yours is really outdated. Then install countryblock. No need for a cron job anymore. That was a long time ago.

marcelloc

@ljbowdish:

I really need to install country block, because SPAM is killing me.
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try spamd.

i'm also porting postfix zombie blocker and spamassassin to pfsense too.

tommyboy180

@marcelloc:

@ljbowdish:

I really need to install country block, because SPAM is killing me.
\

try spamd.

i'm also porting postfix zombie blocker and spamassassin to pfsense too.

With countryblock you can cut down on 90% or more of spam. Spam just isn't unsolicited emails, it's also bots on forums, blogs, etc. Countryblock stops all forms of spam at the source rather than a reactive solution. Using IP-Blocklist with countryblock gives pfsense users more spam blocking power as well since I-blocklist.com maintains a spammer list.

Bummer

Yes, our mail servers already do everything that spamd does, plus more. But after installing Country Block, our spam dropped a lot more, even with the few bugs I've encountered.

I'm waiting to update it until I update to the final release of pfSense 2.0, which should be soon. At that point, my spam should drop a lot more.

What you don't realise is that a lot of spam comes from good servers that have been hacked as well as computers. Thus spam is always coming from different servers with different bogus email addresses.

Believe me, Country Block does work.

ljbowdish

I updated to 2.0 RC3. I installed the country block package. I selected the countries to block.
Did save, update.

now it says

Current Status = NOT running

You are blocking 0 Networks

How do I get it to run?? Do I need to restart teh firewall??

tommyboy180

@ljbowdish:

I updated to 2.0 RC3. I installed the country block package. I selected the countries to block.
Did save, update.

now it says

Current Status = NOT running

You are blocking 0 Networks

How do I get it to run?? Do I need to restart teh firewall??

I think you rushed to the forums without troubleshooting a little more. Ensure you select your countries and then commit. After you commit Check "Enable Countryblock" and the click Save. That should work for you.

ljbowdish

It was the little button that did the trick
I actually didn't see it, until I read your note.
Thank you,

tommyboy180

No problem. Glad it's working.

darklogic

Well I am having the same issue with country block again where it hangs on CIDR.php after doing an firmware update. I am at least glad to see other have seen this issue as well.

Anyone still getting this error?

Thanks,

MDP

tommyboy180

@darklogic:

Well I am having the same issue with country block again where it hangs on CIDR.php after doing an firmware update. I am at least glad to see other have seen this issue as well.

Anyone still getting this error?

Thanks,

MDP

CIDR.php is hosted on my personal web server right now. I am still looking into alternate storage solutions. It may end up getting hosted on pfsense.org here soon.

darklogic

Is there anything I could do at this moment to get country block up and running until that happens?

tommyboy180

Working on it.

darklogic

Thanks Tommyboy…

callinectes

I have County Block installed on pfSense 1.2.3-RELEASE - installed yesterday. It is enabled and running with 84 of 252 selected. The problem I have is that under "Current Status = Running" it shows "You are blocking 0 Networks". Am I doing something wrong? I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no change in results.

EDIT: uninstalling and reinstalling after your most recent post has fixed the problem. I did notice that during install this time there was a progress indicator when downloading CIDR.php where before it hung on downloading that file for about 30 seconds - funny thing was that the installation indicated that it was successful even though it appears CIDR.php had not downloaded. Thanks!