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      Bummer
      last edited by

      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.

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        ljbowdish
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        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??

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          tommyboy180
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          @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.

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

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            ljbowdish
            last edited by

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

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              tommyboy180
              last edited by

              No problem. Glad it's working.

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

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                darklogic
                last edited by

                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

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                  tommyboy180
                  last edited by

                  @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.

                  -Tom Schaefer
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                    darklogic
                    last edited by

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

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                      tommyboy180
                      last edited by

                      Working on it.

                      -Tom Schaefer
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                        darklogic
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Tommyboy…

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                          callinectes
                          last edited by

                          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!

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                            theidol
                            last edited by

                            Upgraded to 2.0 rc-3 today
                            attempted install of Country Block
                            Additional files… CIDR.php    Hangs
                            uninstalled all other packages
                            still hangs
                            then
                            Additional files... CIDR.php failed
                            then
                            Installation of Country Block FAILED!

                            theidol

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                              tommyboy180
                              last edited by

                              Okay, the webserver should be responding now.

                              If your install failed recently, try again.

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

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                                darklogic
                                last edited by

                                Ok that did the trick thanks, but now I am getting this message when I try a test e-mail send.

                                Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

                                I know my setting are correct.

                                Thanks Again

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                                  tommyboy180
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                                  Make sure your username/pass are correct and your port is correct.

                                  The email tab is going to be removed in the next version of countryblock. The package is stable therefore no email is needed.

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

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                                    darklogic
                                    last edited by

                                    Good to hear it is stable enough to remove that feature.

                                    Thanks

                                    MDP

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                                      Bummer
                                      last edited by

                                      So when will the next version of Country Block be out. We won't hold you to it, just a guess-ta-ment!

                                      Thanks!

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                                        tommyboy180
                                        last edited by

                                        I'd imagine around the same time that the new IP-Blocklist package is released. (1-5 months). The time frame is based around my work/life schedule and available funds.

                                        More realistically probably in the next two months. :)

                                        -Tom Schaefer
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                                          cjbujold
                                          last edited by

                                          Getting this error when reloading the CountryBlock Package.  How can I correct.  Uninstalled and re-installed package and getting same error.  PFsense Rc3 August 24th version.

                                          Current Status = NOT running
                                          /tmp/rules.debug:270: cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/ipblocklist/lists/ipfw.ipfw": No such file or directory
                                          You are blocking 0 Networks

                                          Thanks
                                          cjb

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                                            tommyboy180
                                            last edited by

                                            The file will be hosted on github shortly. This will be reflected in the next package update.

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

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