PfSense not blocking attacker (FIXED)

staroflaw

Ok, As a test I have blocked my friends IP address.

This is my settings. Under Rules > WAN I added this.

But he can still access the web/FTP/Comms server's. What am I doing wrong?

cmb

Probably wrong rule order, block must come above any pass rules that'd match.

staroflaw

Should it not work here? its Block Test

Thanks

star.

cmb

Assuming traffic is coming in on WAN, and you have no interface groups or floating rules, yes. There is no rule allowing web access on WAN, so guessing that must be coming in via a VPN or some other Internet connection.

staroflaw

Yes traffic is coming in on WAN

Floating > No floating rules are currently defined.
WAN >

Torguard / PPTP VPN / OpenVPN > are all now disabled.

Still its not blocking my mates IP. I just don't get it.

If you wanted to block a IP from entering what would you do?

Star.

kejianshi

If the traffic is coming in through the WAN:

1. You are allowing it, perhaps inadvertently

or

2. The connection was established before you made the rule to block it and you never rebooted pfsense.

Or perhaps you are running uPNP on something on your lan that is forwarding ports?

staroflaw

If the traffic is coming in through the WAN:

1. You are allowing it, perhaps inadvertently

Not sure were else to look.

2. The connection was established before you made the rule to block it and you never rebooted pfsense.

I have rebooted after every change made.

Or perhaps you are running uPNP on something on your lan that is forwarding ports?

I have removed all other devices from the network, so I only have.
Modem -> pfsense box -> Server box. Nothing else is on the network.

Still able to gain access through firewall to server.

Your avatar says it all! lol

Star.

kejianshi

1. Are you accessing the "WAN" from inside or outside your network to test blocking? (I have to ask)

2. Have you put a "pass" rule on the WAN as if its a LAN? floating rule? (Gotta ask)

I see you answered that before… Sigh.

Makes me wonder if the IP accessing your WAN and the IP you put on your firewall block rule are in fact the same IP.

staroflaw

This is what I have in my webserver logs.

80.82.78.166 - - [08/Oct/2014:12:02:52 +0100] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 403 1122 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
This IP is making 6 requests a second.

Here is the Rule I added on the WAN

Is this correct? Am I missing something?

Thanks

Star.

kejianshi

This should make no difference, however, under "destination" put WAN address, then try.

staroflaw

No it made no difference at all.
I even added a Rule to Block everything coming in >

Still able to access my services from outside of my network.

Star.

kejianshi

Do you have multiple WANs?

See, you don't have to add "Block all" rules on the WAN. Dropping inbound unsolicited packets is the default unless you allow them.

So, is there another way into your network?

staroflaw

No. only 1 WAN.
The Block ALL was just a test.

The only other way in was openVPN and PPTP. But I disabled them both.

Thanks for your help btw. I do appreciate it.

Star.

kejianshi

I don't know.

My feeling is that pfsense isn't the problem because simple allow/block rules work fine usually.

In situations like this, I normally go with a wipe and reinstall.

Also. Has anyone added firewalls directly to packet filter in the command line of pfsense?

charliem

Can you check that your rules are showing up in /tmp/rules.debug, especially that Torguard / OpenVPN / PPTP VPN really are disabled?

Anything look strange in that file?

MilesDeep

Mine is doing the same thing in an attempt to block 1452. It simply will not.

sect

I'm interested in this problem and will look into this setup myself as soon as I get the time to experiment in my test environment.
@staroflaw Will you post when you find a solution to your problem? Often after solving the problem, nothing is heard thereafter ;-)

staroflaw

Hi charliem

Can you check that your rules are showing up in /tmp/rules.debug, especially that Torguard / OpenVPN / PPTP VPN really are disabled?
Anything look strange in that file?

After looking in the rules.debug file I don't see anything relating to Torguard or PPTP VPN. I do see some reference to OpenVPN

#System aliases
loopback = "{ lo0 }"
WAN = "{ re1 }"
LAN = "{ re0 }"
WIFI = "{ em0 }"
OpenVPN = "{ openvpn }"

anchor "relayd/*"
anchor "openvpn/*"
anchor "ipsec/*"

I do see the blocked rule.

# User-defined rules follow

anchor "userrules/*"
block  in  quick  on $WAN reply-to ( re1 XX.XX.XXX.1 ) inet from 80.82.78.166 to any  label "USER_RULE: Block Attack"

The IP re1 XX.XX.XXX.1 is not my IP. All the X are correct but mine ends in 204 not 1?

This is all the Rules I have set.

I also have my 4G mobile IP and my mates IP blocked but both can still access my services.

Thank you

Star.

kejianshi

Whatever you do, don't wipe it and reinstall it…

If you did that, it might fix it without ever satisfying the curiosity of the masses.

staroflaw

staroflaw Will you post when you find a solution to your problem? Often after solving the problem, nothing is heard thereafter ;-)

I know what you mean, I will deferential post if I fix it.

Whatever you do, don't wipe it and reinstall it…
If you did that, it might fix it without ever satisfying the curiosity of the masses.

I also want to understand why its not working correctly, just in case I see the happen again.

This attack has now been going for 5 days, they have made over 1,728000 requests.
I have reported it to my ISP and Ecatel LTD the owner of that IP.

My ISP says they cannot do anything about it unless they have a large amount of complaints relating to that IP. I totally understand that.
Ecatel LTD say….... "Nothing" I have had no response from them at all. I have contacted them two times now with LOG's and nothing.

Star.