Country Block

ljbowdish · Aug 17, 2011, 1:53 AM

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 · Aug 17, 2011, 6:08 PM

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 · Aug 17, 2011, 2:44 PM

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

tommyboy180 · Aug 17, 2011, 6:09 PM

No problem. Glad it's working.

darklogic · Aug 24, 2011, 12:47 PM

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 · Aug 24, 2011, 1:01 PM

@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 · Aug 24, 2011, 1:27 PM

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

tommyboy180 · Aug 24, 2011, 3:05 PM

Working on it.

darklogic · Aug 24, 2011, 3:38 PM

Thanks Tommyboy…

callinectes · Aug 24, 2011, 6:17 PM

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!

theidol · Aug 24, 2011, 5:05 PM

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

tommyboy180 · Aug 24, 2011, 5:15 PM

Okay, the webserver should be responding now.

If your install failed recently, try again.

darklogic · Aug 24, 2011, 5:26 PM

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

tommyboy180 · Aug 24, 2011, 5:42 PM

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.

darklogic · Aug 24, 2011, 5:53 PM

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

Thanks

MDP

Bummer · Aug 24, 2011, 6:18 PM

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

Thanks!

tommyboy180 · Aug 24, 2011, 6:42 PM

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. :)

cjbujold · Aug 25, 2011, 11:51 AM

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

tommyboy180 · Aug 25, 2011, 12:10 PM

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

phl · Aug 26, 2011, 3:29 PM

Hello, I was running PFsense 1.2.0, I upgraded to 1.2.3, installed snort, then the following day I installed Country Block and it all appeared OK except that after selecting countries, commit, then enable/save - it shows its running but blocking 0 networks. Then I noticed that there is no service showing for Country Block (running or not running). Also when I install it, the system log shows as the last entry, php: /pkg_mgr_install.php: Beginning package installation for Country Block. I see no completion message, no service start message even though its listed as running (even though there is no service). It seems like it never really installed? I really appreciate any help with this. Thanks.