PfBlockerNG
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Just did a very smooth reinstall/upgrade to 1.01. Thanks BBcan177 for an amazing package and thanks for all the support.
Cheers!
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Not seeing any aliases being created after selecting various country blocks. Nor do I see them on the dashboard widget. Its empty.
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Did you enable pfBlockerNG in the General tab? Did you force an update?
Not seeing any aliases being created after selecting various country blocks. Nor do I see them on the dashboard widget. Its empty.
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Yup..
EDIT: A reboot fixed it.
Quick question…..
Do u enable the floating rules options on the general tab?
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After seeing some users installation of pfBNG, I would like to suggest the following:
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Enable "Keep Settings" in the General Tab. On any re-install you will lose all settings without it.
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With the new "Alerts" Tab, you don't need to break-out each List into a single Alias. You can create an "Alias" Category, say IBlock and put most of the IBlock lists into one Alias. You can create another Alias for "Mail Servers" etc.. The Alerts tab will tell you which list was responsible for the Blocked event.
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If you create an "Alias Permit/Deny/Match/Native", name the Alias pfb_ All lowercase. The widget is designed to pick this Prefix in the Rules so that it can be displayed with the other Auto rules that are prefixed pfB_. For any Alias only type list, never use pfB_ as a prefix. The package will remove it at each Cron event.
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Match can be used if you want to Monitor a group of IPs, this will just log the activity without Blocking. These Match rules will populate in the Floating Tab. You can use a URL or post IPs in the "Custom Box" provided in each Alias.
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"Alias Native" are lists that do not undergo any De-Duplication/Reputation, this can be used for Lists like the IBlock Anti-Infringement or when you want to Block Facebook for example.
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With the new "html" format, you can Deny, Permit or Match sites like Twitter, Facebook for example. You can use Hurricane Electric to pull the IPs that are part of these networks. You would also need to create a list for IPv6 if you use that in your network. Again use the "Alias Native" for these types of lists if you want to Block them. For Permit or Match, you can use the Auto-Type Rule Settings.
http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=twitter&commit=Search
http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=facebook&commit=Search
http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=spotify&commit=Search
http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=dropbox&commit=Search- And as always no one reads the tech notes on each setting. So I advise you to read each one to familiarize yourself with each function.
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And what List Action did you select?
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Did you enable pfBlockerNG in the General tab? Did you force an update
@Asterix:Not seeing any aliases being created after selecting various country blocks. Nor do I see them on the dashboard widget. Its empty.
Follow the pfblockerng.log. It will tell you error events that can help diagnose…
Two points to check
- Each alias needs to have a defined : List Action
- Ensure that you have a "header name" for each List/URL
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I edited my previous post as a reboot fixed it.
Wanted to check if u enable the floating rules options on the general tab?
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I edited my previous post as a reboot fixed it.
Wanted to check if u enable the floating rules options on the general tab?
The choice is there to run Rules on each interface or to set them in the "Floating Tab"… The Choice is yours to make... There are threads that give some more advice on that...
So yes, if you want to enable "Floating Rules" select the option in the General Tab.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78062.0
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woot, it's official!
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After seeing some users installation of pfBNG, I would like to suggest the following:
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Enable "Keep Settings" in the General Tab. On any re-install you will lose all settings without it.
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With the new "Alerts" Tab, you don't need to break-out each List into a single Alias. You can create an "Alias" Category, say IBlock and put most of the IBlock lists into one Alias. You can create another Alias for "Mail Servers" etc.. The Alerts tab will tell you which list was responsible for the Blocked event.
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And as always no one reads the tech notes on each setting. So I advise you to read each one to familiarize yourself with each function.
Like This:
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Wanted to check if u enable the floating rules options on the general tab?
Depends on how you want your system setup. I have it enabled using rule order pfSense Pass/Match | pgB_Pass/Match | pfB_Block/Reject..
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My lists were all showing 0 entries after update… But after the last CRON they are all showing again. Weird as I force updated many times and it didn't populate. Not sure what happened, but ignore this post. :)
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Can you run the following command followed by a "Force Update"
/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dc
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I ran that and force updated. After last update have 70K+ entries, same as right before I did it.
I also tried adding/removing a few countries and the count changes. So seems like everything is working great. Not sure what happened right after upgrade, but it is behaving now. AWESOME addition to pfSense.
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I hate to ask stupid questions on here, but i'm going to anyway. Feel free to point out my inadequacies, as I'm sure the answer is obvious and I'm just being obtuse…
If I need to unblock/pass a specific IP address that is currently being blocked in a country block list - is that possible?
For instance, I had Poland blocked in the Top 20 list. However, GOG.COM's game down loader is via Poland so I need to let it through.
Obviously I can unblock Poland, but would rather just let the GOG IP address through.
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If I need to unblock/pass a specific IP address that is currently being blocked in a country block list - is that possible?
Follow the instructions in this link to create a "Permit outbound" alias.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86212.msg484689#msg484689
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Very nice job on the package but…in the alert tab we need small country flags for the CC colum. Its not a real NG package w/o little flags :)
Cheers.
F.
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Very nice job on the package but…in the alert tab we need small country flags for the CC colum. Its not a real NG package w/o little flags :)
:) I thought about it.. I was going to borrow the flags from the ntopng package but with so many countries, I think it's impractical for most users to reference all those Flags. While I agree it would look nice, I think Geography is not the intended topic. I may add it and let the user decide which they prefer. However, I am focusing my efforts on the next version which will have Unbound DNSBL integration. :)
Thanks for the overall positive feedback!
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ROFL!
Very nice job on the package but…in the alert tab we need small country flags for the CC colum. Its not a real NG package w/o little flags :)
