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    Installing the Dansguardian package in PFSense - One user's experience

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      baud
      last edited by

      this is brilliant marcelloc!

      I'll try this out later and will give you some feedback.

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        cakewipe
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        @marcelloc:

        I could not reproduce this issue but I'll include on dansguardian gui an option to force squid startup before dansguardian.

        First, Thanks Marcelloc for your great work.
        I am having the same issue where Dansguardian is starting before squid and locking me out of the Web Interface.  I installed it just yesterday and couldn't find where the option to force squid to startup before dansguardian was.  Is this implemented?  If so, where do I set this?

        Thanks!

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          rjcrowder
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          @cakewipe:

          @marcelloc:

          I could not reproduce this issue but I'll include on dansguardian gui an option to force squid startup before dansguardian.

          First, Thanks Marcelloc for your great work.
          I am having the same issue where Dansguardian is starting before squid and locking me out of the Web Interface.  I installed it just yesterday and couldn't find where the option to force squid to startup before dansguardian was.  Is this implemented?  If so, where do I set this?

          Thanks!

          First - create a firewall rule (or add an exception to your redirect rule) so that you can get to the pfSense UI even if DG does not start…

          As far as the order of starting, I'm not sure. I haven't seen that error in quite a while and I never figured out what was controlling the order (ideas Marcello?). One way to work around it is to create your own startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to startup DG last. Name it something like zz_startdg.sh just to make sure it executes last.

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            Guest
            last edited by

            dansguardian only works for marcelloc and it's developers!

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              rjcrowder
              last edited by

              Works great for me… And while I will admit that I've done some modifications and spent a fair amount of time figuring out how pfSense works, I'm not "one of its developers"... I do this purely for the fun of it!

              I'm going to vent a little, but it baffles me that people want to use a freely distributed, freely developed product and then complain that it doesn't work! Spend the time to learn a little bit... When I first started playing with this thing, I had no idea how pfSense was structured and had little knowledge of FreeBSD, PHP, etc.  Try to debug some things on your own. If you find issues, dig in and try to resolve them rather than complaining! That's how an open source software package becomes better.

              If that's not where you're at, then maybe you should purchase a commercial product. Then you can call someone in India who will tell you to "reboot and see if that fixes it..."

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                Hugovsky
                last edited by

                Works great for me too. Using it with 300+ users and fiber. Thanks to Marcelloc and to all that contribute. Awesome job.

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                  NemesisXIII
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                  I was able to get it reasonably configured and it seems to work for most everything I want but I have a persistent problem with Google.  I am unable to filter google's search results to be safe only.  It seems they changed all their search to https only and it is preventing me from enforcing safe mode (Searches for naughty words still show thumbnails of naughty content even though none of it is clickable.)  In my search I have found multiple modify statements none of which work.  Has anyone been able to find a way to enforce safe search or prevent searches of certain keywords from being successful?
                  The best I've been able to manage is that http://216.239.32.20/ is the google search IP address and searches on it are properly caught by dansguardin(and properly safe search enforced); however any regular browser bar search or putting google.com into the address bar brings me back to my original problem of being unable to modify the ssl and search queries.

                  Thanks for any help.

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                    rjcrowder
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                    You can enter DNS overrides in the DNS settings to force resolution of google.com to nosslsearch.google.com (216.239.32.20).

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                      Ricardozam
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                      Hello

                      I'm new to pfSense and although I have managed to put into operation

                      pfSense 2.1-RELEASE (i386)
                      built on Wed Sep 11 18:16:50 EDT 2013
                      FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11

                      with squid3 2.0.6 pkg v3.1.20

                      on this box
                      CPU Type Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU E7500@2.93GHz
                      2 CPUs: 1 package (s) x 2 core (s)
                      2GB Memory
                      100GB HD

                      with up to 100 users for two weeks without problems

                      I would like to advise me if it is possible to have Dansguardian v2.12.0.3 pkg v.0.1.8 with this setup and maintain a fully functional squid3 cache

                      Thanks for your advice on this regards.

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                        q54e3w
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                        I've followed this guide but can't for the life of me get traffic to flow. The dansguardian and squid logs show zero activity so something pretty fundamental is wrong.
                        My first pfsense box 192.168.10.1 runs openvpn, suricata and firewall.
                        I've got a second pfsense box 192.168.10.2 running dansguardian and squid only which was intended to replace an untangle setup.
                        The only difference I can see from this guide is I'm using a bridged connection to group my onboard wan, lan*3 ports plus my quad i350 and dual x520 with the first box. To reduce complexity I've reduced this down to a sole wan & lan bridged connection but no joy. Everything worked correctly prior to introducing dansguardian and squid so the bridge setup is sound.
                        Is the bridge setup likely to cause problems?

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                          aGeekhere
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                          Hi all,

                          I would like to add Dansguardian to my squid3-dev squidgarden for Transparent Proxy with ssl filtering.
                          squidgarde is working and filtering (just need to workout how to allow update services like windows update and adobe creative cloud, if anyone had any advice on this I would be much appreciated) UPDATE solved windows updates https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=73640.45

                          The problem is that Dansguardian does not want to filter anything (http or https, i turned off squidgarden  to test this).

                          I have tried creating  a NAT rule for Dansguardian  and put it on the TOP of the list
                          LAN TCP * * LAN net 80 (HTTP) 192.168.1.1 8080 dans

                          Dansguardian setup
                          Listen interface: LAN
                          port: 8080
                          Proxy IP: 192.168.1.1
                          Proxy Port: 3128
                          SSL man in the middle Filtering using my certificate

                          Squid setup
                          http Proxy interface lan
                          http Proxy port 3128
                          Transparent Proxy interface lan
                          Bypass proxy for these destination IPs 192.168.1.1
                          SSL Intercept interface(s) lan
                          SSL Proxy port blank

                          Anyone have any suggestions?

                          Never Fear, A Geek is Here!

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                            jazzisjazz
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                            Howdy, I am trying to set up Dansguardian.

                            I hav a pfsense box with 1.8ghz amd 754 sempron, 2gigs memory, 32gb ssd.
                            2.1.5 is installed.

                            I have configured already to used opendns.

                            It works but I don't know if it could negatively affect another installed package.

                            I decided to try following your notes to install/configure Dansguardian.

                            WAN interface pointing at the ISP and
                            a LAN interface with the IP address 192.168.1.1.

                            Installed Dansguardian.

                            Setup
                            Go to: Services>Dansguardian
                            Click on Enable Dansguardian
                            Listen interface - LAN
                            Listen Port - 8080 typed in
                            Proxy IP - 192.168.1.1 (My PFSense box)
                            Proxy Port - 3128 typed in
                            Saved that.

                            DG is running Status>Services - checked.

                            I did not understand the following paragraph:

                            At this point I found there was nothing listening on port 3128 (sockstat -4l) which I didn't expect because I thought the package installed Squid so either I missed something or I was just wrong, either way, I decided I'd install squid from the package.

                            What test/command did you run to"find nothing listening"?

                            Installed Squid

                            System>Packages>Available Packages and select Squid
                            After squid installed I did not find a configuration page like I did for Dansguardian
                            under Services

                            Squid configuration (optional)
                            Visible host name - "your host name"

                            save

                            so I just saved.

                            Go back to Services>Dansguardian and click save in order to recycle DG
                            clicked save to recycle dansGuardian.

                            Changed settings in Firefox
                            Firefox proceed as follows:

                            Tools>Options
                            Network Tab>Settings>Manual Proxy configuration

                            HTTP Proxy - 10.0.2.1 (IP of your dansguardian/PFsense machine)
                            Port - 8080

                            Tick - Use this proxy for all protocols.

                            Now try to access both a good site and a bad site:

                            Can't access a good or bad site - so far

                            google.com - Good
                            tits.com - Bad (or any other bad site)

                            Where have I gone wrong?

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                              forca
                              last edited by

                              nice howto!! just tried out with pfs-2.0.2 on alix2d3, works fine as transparent or no transparent mode!!
                              this version of DG works:
                              http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.2.tbz
                              http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.0_2-i386.pbi

                              But what about DG within last stable (2.2.2) and brandnew (nightly build from today)? It crashes always (even on first start) with illegal instruction (dansguardian. Illegal instruction (core dumped)) :(
                              this version of DG (used in last stable 2.2.2) crashes:
                              http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi

                              Is there a way or a trick to get it working properly?

                              As fallback, i could stay at 2.0.2…but i would like to use the last release

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                                forca
                                last edited by

                                @forca:

                                nice howto!! just tried out with pfs-2.0.2 on alix2d3, works fine as transparent or no transparent mode!!
                                this version of DG works:
                                http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.2.tbz
                                http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.0_2-i386.pbi

                                But what about DG within last stable (2.2.2) and brandnew (nightly build from today)? It crashes always (even on first start) with illegal instruction (dansguardian. Illegal instruction (core dumped)) :(
                                this version of DG (used in last stable 2.2.2) crashes:
                                http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi

                                Is there a way or a trick to get it working properly?

                                As fallback, i could stay at 2.0.2…but i would like to use the last release

                                sorry, my bad…
                                on 2.0.2 is also http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi installed and works fine
                                on 2.2.2 http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi crashes

                                Any ideas?

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                                  forca
                                  last edited by

                                  @forca:

                                  @forca:

                                  nice howto!! just tried out with pfs-2.0.2 on alix2d3, works fine as transparent or no transparent mode!!
                                  this version of DG works:
                                  http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.2.tbz
                                  http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.0_2-i386.pbi

                                  But what about DG within last stable (2.2.2) and brandnew (nightly build from today)? It crashes always (even on first start) with illegal instruction (dansguardian. Illegal instruction (core dumped)) :(
                                  this version of DG (used in last stable 2.2.2) crashes:
                                  http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi

                                  Is there a way or a trick to get it working properly?

                                  As fallback, i could stay at 2.0.2…but i would like to use the last release

                                  sorry, my bad…
                                  on 2.0.2 is also http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi installed and works fine
                                  on 2.2.2 http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi crashes

                                  Any ideas?

                                  some news:
                                  …seems to be a i386-problem. Just tried on apu1 with amd64-arch, dansguardian seems to work on last stable 2.2.2 version

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                                    simonbrads
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                                    @forca:

                                    But what about DG within last stable (2.2.2) and brandnew (nightly build from today)? It crashes always (even on first start) with illegal instruction (dansguardian. Illegal instruction (core dumped)) :(
                                    this version of DG (used in last stable 2.2.2) crashes:
                                    http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_2-i386.pbi

                                    Same here. I just:

                                    • Upgraded to pfSense 2.2.2-RELEASE

                                    • Installed squid 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.6

                                    • Installed DansGuardian 2.12.0.3_2 pkg v.0.1.12

                                    DG crashes straight away. :'(

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                                      Mobile_Bob
                                      last edited by

                                      Looks like Dansguardian isn't supported anymore with the latest PFSense build.  A new Package E2Guardian (an updated fork of Dansguardian) is in the works.  Check out https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87526.0

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                                        aditaa
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                                        @Chewy:

                                        There is a tick box in the squid configuration page that is marked "Transparent Proxy" and promises to redirect everything automagically for you, it doesn't work for a DG set up in my experience.

                                        The Transparent Proxy box does work …. the issue is that it sends it to squid not DG .... so it bypasses DG but squid proxy is set up that easy

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