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    • marcellocM
      marcelloc
      last edited by

      Change the way you apply rules.

      Unselect everything but USA and choose action alias only.

      After this, apply this alias on your wan rules.

      Example:

      Allow src pfBlockerAmerica dst wan_subnet port 80

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        kilthro
        last edited by

        I wanted to let you know that i finally upgraded to the latest release of pfsense (been on a rc release of 2.0 forever since its been solid for me) which also forced me to go ahead and move away from countryblock and upgrade to this package. I want to say thanks and let you know that I was able to install this package, block everything except for United states, and all is going great so far. The inbound was blocked with no issue. The only thing is the outbound. It would never add the rules to the table to block those no matter what i selected in the package. I just created my own rules with the alias of the countries from pfblocker and all is working great. The counter on the widget works on both inbound and outbound :-).

        Thanks so much for putting this together!!!!!
        Donation incoming too. :-)

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          @kilthro:

          I was able to install this package, block everything except for United states

          take a look on post above yours.
          If your are blocking everything except United states, It`s better changing the way you apply rules.

          @kilthro:

          Thanks so much for putting this together!!!!!
          Donation incoming too. :-)

          Thank you  ;D

          Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

          Help a community developer! ;D

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            kilthro
            last edited by

            @marcelloc:

            @kilthro:

            I was able to install this package, block everything except for United states

            take a look on post above yours.
            If your are blocking everything except United states, It`s better changing the way you apply rules.

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            [/quote]

            Thank you  ;D

            Sorry let me rephrase. I am successfully blocking everything but the US as I planned. So it is working just fine. There is no issue. All networks appear to be blocked except for US and thats good!!!

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              Yes, I understood that.

              The suggestion was just to use less resources from firewall.

              Allow access to 40.000 network and block anything else is less work then block all countries CIDRs and allow what is not matched.

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                kilthro
                last edited by

                Oh i c. That makes sense. Right now seems to be ok but if I see performance issues, I will take that in mind and change it up.

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                  trafficking
                  last edited by

                  Firstly, thank you for the excellent package.  I greatly enjoy using 3rd party lists to do IP blocking and have pfblocker configured and running the way I like it.  That said, I do have a couple questions.

                  1. I prefer to block inbound and outbound connections on all interfaces and use pfblocker aliases with 2 floating rules to do this.  Is this the preferred method or is there another way I am missing?

                  2. Not directly a pfblocker question, but in what order are floating rules applied?  Do they come before or after the individual interface rules?

                  Thank you very much for all your hard work!

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                  • marcellocM
                    marcelloc
                    last edited by

                    1. I prefer to block inbound and outbound connections on all interfaces and use pfblocker aliases with 2 floating rules to do this.  Is this the preferred method or is there another way I am missing?

                    Define action as alias only and create your rules. That's the best way.

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                    Help a community developer! ;D

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                      justsomeguy6575
                      last edited by

                      This seems like a very good package. However I'm having trouble getting lists to work properly.

                      I can make a list with this url in gz format and it works fine and creates an alias:
                      http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_spyware&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz

                      For some reason no matter what I try I can't get this list to load in either txt or gz format. No alias is created and nothing is blocked.
                      https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipblocklist

                      Any ideas? Thanks

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
                        last edited by

                        For some reason no matter what I try I can't get this list to load in either txt or gz format. No alias is created and nothing is blocked.
                        https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipblocklist

                        This list is in txt format and returns only ips, not CIDR or ip ranges.

                        so,

                        :)

                        version 1.0.1 is out with:

                        • fixed pfBlocker to check lists with single ips

                        • updated country ip files

                        • Return of Deny Both action(Inbound and Outbound)

                        • Improved some GUI info

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                        Help a community developer! ;D

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                          justsomeguy6575
                          last edited by

                          Wow.. thanks marcello! New version seems to work great.

                          Nice work, thanks again

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                            vg8open
                            last edited by

                            Thank you for a great package!  I just have one minor request for this package.  Can you add more granular options for the list update frequency?  Something like the attached image?

                            Thanks,

                            -Brian

                            schedule.PNG
                            schedule.PNG_thumb

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                              KongGulerod
                              last edited by

                              Thanx for a great package - I like how it integrates and uses pfSense 2.0 firewall aliases and WAN/LAN rules :-)

                              A small observation and fix request (latest pfSense 2.0 release + latest pfBlocker):

                              After placing the pfBlocker widget on the bottom part of my long pfSense 2.0 dashboard page with vertical scrollbar, I observed that the dashboard page/scrollbar automatically reverted back to the top of the page at a fixed interval (every 5-10 secs).

                              This is a bit annoying if I am looking at data from a widget in the bottom part of the dashboard page - and every 5-10 seconds the page jumps to the top (internal pfBlocker refresh?) and I have to manually use the scrollbar/mouse/arrow-keys to navigate back down to the bottom of the page.

                              If I temp. removed the pfBlocker widget from dashboard the mis-behaviour went away also.

                              Hope you can reproduce this scenario and look forward to next release :-)

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                              • marcellocM
                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

                                I observed that the dashboard page/scrollbar automatically

                                Thanks for the feedback.

                                I`ve removed scroll call in widget.

                                reinstall package in about 15 minutes.

                                If you have many widgets, consider testing widescreen package. It may help you.

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                                Help a community developer! ;D

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                                • AhnHELA
                                  AhnHEL
                                  last edited by

                                  Reinstalled and now I'm not getting any CIDRs or Packets in the widget.

                                  ![Screen Shot 2011-12-20 at 1.47.33 PM.png](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2011-12-20 at 1.47.33 PM.png)
                                  ![Screen Shot 2011-12-20 at 1.47.33 PM.png_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2011-12-20 at 1.47.33 PM.png_thumb)

                                  AhnHEL (Angel)

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    fixed javascript again, try reinstall in 15 minutes.

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                                    Help a community developer! ;D

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                                      LEPM
                                      last edited by

                                      pf 2.0 i386 + squid+squidguard+pfblocker 1.0 and 1.0.1 works very well (deny inbound)

                                      pfblocker 1.0.1+ deny both, crash pfsense!!
                                      reboot and crash,crash…
                                      changing to deny inbound,works well again

                                      Your new system is probably coming with some hyper trash like Windows 8

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        Can you be more specific on what kind of crash you have?

                                        I'm using deny both with no issues or crashes.
                                        Boot process is fine too.

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                                        Help a community developer! ;D

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                                          KongGulerod
                                          last edited by

                                          @marcelloc:

                                          I`ve removed scroll call in widget.
                                          reinstall package in about 15 minutes.

                                          Seems to work fine now… no forced scrolling to the top when refreshing numbers.

                                          Thanx !!

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                                          • AhnHELA
                                            AhnHEL
                                            last edited by

                                            Getting this error now trying to enable pfBlocker, and the widget still looks like the pic i posted above.

                                            Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10499768 bytes) in /usr/local/pkg/pfblocker.inc on line 281

                                            AhnHEL (Angel)

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