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      heliop100
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      May I copy the from xml backup file from one box to another?

      Thanks.

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      • BBcan177B
        BBcan177 Moderator
        last edited by

        @brandur:

        I was wondering if there are any plans to support this AmazonAWS json IP list https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json ?

        Some extra info: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html

        You can scrape the IPs from that URL or any other URL using the "html" format. However, it won't be able to distinguish the different Amazon subsets. So it will pool them all together which you could use to "Permit, Match or Block/Reject"

        "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

        Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
        Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
        Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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        • BBcan177B
          BBcan177 Moderator
          last edited by

          @heliop100:

          My lab are at home one WAN one LAN, production at work, two WANs one LAN.
          May I sync anyway?

          You can sync any pfSense Boxes whether remote or local.

          And yes you can copy / paste with the config.xml but please ensure you backup as you can crash it with an improperly formatted file.

          If you do modify a config.xml from the shell, you can delete the cache file to get those changes to take effect

          rm /tmp/config.cache

          "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

          Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
          Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
          Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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            Fesoj
            last edited by

            I have a comprehension question. Is pfBlockerNG supposed to block any traffic? I added a single IP to my IPv4 list and I can still access the web site with this particular IP. Maybe I should say that Squid is also running.

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            • BBcan177B
              BBcan177 Moderator
              last edited by

              @Fesoj:

              I have a comprehension question. Is pfBlockerNG supposed to block any traffic? I added a single IP to my IPv4 list and I can still access the web site with this particular IP. Maybe I should say that Squid is also running.

              Well its kind of what the name of the package implies :)
              So to answer your question, yes the package can create firewall rules to "Block/Reject/Permit/Match"…

              Need more info on how you have configured it to help you further.

              "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

              Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
              Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
              Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                heliop100
                last edited by

                I'm using Alienvault List and blocking outside traffic to Russia, China and North Korea.

                Access to www.tcpiputils.com (148.251.153.34 - Germany (DE) - not listed on AlienVault) are blocked, but not on alerts or firewall logs.

                If I reset states, it opens for a few seconds and blocks again, disabling pfBlockerNG resolve that issue.

                Any idea?

                Thanks.

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                • BBcan177B
                  BBcan177 Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @heliop100:

                  I'm using Allienvault List and blocking outside traffic to Russia, China and North Korea.

                  Access to www.tcpiputils.com (148.251.153.34 - Germany (DE) - not listed on AllienVault) are blocked, but not on alerts or firewall logs.

                  If I reset states, it opens for a few seconds and blocks again, disabling pfBlockerNG resolve that issue.

                  Any idea?

                  Thanks.

                  Alienvault doesn't have that IP listed.. But run this command below to see if any other list has that included…

                  grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/ | grep '/'*

                  Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                  Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                  edit: added the -h flag to skip the filename/path

                  "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                  Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                  Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                  Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                    heliop100
                    last edited by

                    Hi, thanks for your quick answer,

                    The command gets the same of yours:

                    grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/* | grep '/'
                    148.251.195.0/24
                    148.251.88.0/24

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                    • BBcan177B
                      BBcan177 Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @heliop100:

                      Hi, thanks for your quick answer,

                      The command gets the same of yours:

                      grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/* | grep '/'
                      148.251.195.0/24
                      148.251.88.0/24

                      Run the following commands to report all IPs listed in the 148.0.0.0 range…

                      cd /var/db/pfblockerng/deny
                      grep "^148\." * | grep '/'
                      

                      "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                      Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                      Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                      Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                        heliop100
                        last edited by

                        Hi

                        grep "^148." * | grep '/'

                        Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                        Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                        (But I have disable/enable pfBlockerNG with keep settings cleared, and now are not blocking tcpiputils anymore)

                        Thanks.

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                        • BBcan177B
                          BBcan177 Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @heliop100:

                          Hi

                          grep "^148." * | grep '/'

                          Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                          Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                          (But I have disable/enable pfBlockerNG with keep settings cleared, and now are not blocking tcpiputils anymore)

                          Thanks.

                          pfBNG will only block what you configure it to block…

                          What does this command report:

                          host -t A tcpiputils.com
                          

                          Maybe tcpiputils.com resolves to a different address for you?

                          All blocked IPs should be reported in the Alerts Tab.

                          You can also try:
                          Instead of completely disabling pfBNG, goto the LAN interface and toggle the Icon at the left for each pfBNG Rule one at a time to see which Rule is causing the block for you. Then go from there.

                          "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                          Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                          Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                          Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                            heliop100
                            last edited by

                            Hi,

                            $ host -t A tcpiputils.com
                            tcpiputils.com has address 148.251.153.34

                            Will try your suggestion:

                            Instead of completely disabling pfBNG, goto the LAN interface and toggle the Icon at the left for each pfBNG Rule one at a time to see which Rule is causing the block for you. Then go from there.

                            Thanks.

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                            • BBcan177B
                              BBcan177 Moderator
                              last edited by

                              As a note, Germany is listed in the TOP20 List… Did you by any chance select all of the TOP20 to block? If so... This is why its blocked...

                              You can also create a pfBNG alias "Permit Outbound" and add the IPs that you want to bypass the Blocking rules to the "Custom list" at the bottom... Then set the Rules order to have this permit Rule above the Block/Reject rules...

                              "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                              Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                              Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                              Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                                heliop100
                                last edited by

                                Hi,

                                No using TOP20.

                                Don't know what may be happened, now are not blocking.

                                Thanks.

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                                  heliop100
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi

                                  I'm receiving this error:

                                  [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                  The pfSense box has 4Gb ram and are at 7%.

                                  Thanks.

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                                    doktornotor Banned
                                    last edited by

                                    @heliop100:

                                    [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                    Welcome to the club. This is not a package issue, also nothing to do with lack of physical RAM. It's core OS (probably kernel-level) stuff…

                                    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4876

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                                      heliop100
                                      last edited by

                                      ok, thanks.

                                      @doktornotor:

                                      @heliop100:

                                      [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                      Welcome to the club. This is not a package issue, also nothing to do with lack of physical RAM. It's core OS (probably kernel-level) stuff…

                                      https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4876

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                                      • BBcan177B
                                        BBcan177 Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @heliop100:

                                        Hi

                                        I'm receiving this error:

                                        [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                        The pfSense box has 4Gb ram and are at 7%.

                                        Thanks.

                                        Damn IBlock again :)

                                        Create a second IBlock Alias for this large IBlock list.

                                        There seems to be an issue with having that many IPs in one Alias table.

                                        "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                                        Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                                        Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                                        Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                                          doktornotor Banned
                                          last edited by

                                          Well, some of these lists would need splitting feature until the damned bug is found.

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                                            interos
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                                            Having issues setting up pfBlockerNG on pfSense.
                                            Seems like an easy to fix problem if I want to write code; so my assumption is that it is also an easy settings fix that I missed.

                                            The problem is that when pfBlockerNG ingests a list, it finds spaces in the header and promptly aborts.
                                            I've been testing several lists from iBlockList via both paid and public lists that demonstrate the same problem.

                                            The first list I tried was the Pedophile list.  Here is the excerpt from the txt file which is downloaded via a gz file.

                                            List distributed by iblocklist.com

                                            Sharing R@ygold Porn:1.9.98.0-1.9.99.255
                                            Shares Various Illegal Porn:1.9.101.0-1.9.103.255

                                            In pfBlockerNG, I have the following settings:

                                            Alias Name: Pedophiles
                                            List Description: i-BlockList Pedophiles
                                            Format: gz
                                            State: On
                                            URL: http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=dufcxgnbjsdwmwctgfuj&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz&username=MyUserName&pin=MyPIN
                                            Header: iBlock-Pedo
                                            List Action: Deny Both
                                            Update Frequency: Every 4 Hours
                                            Weekly: Monday
                                            Enable Logging: Enable
                                            Enable Custom Port: Blank
                                            Enable Custom Destination: Blank
                                            Custom Protocol: any
                                            IPv4 Custom Addresses: Blank
                                            Update Custom List: Default

                                            Running pfSense 2.2.4
                                            pfBlockerNG 1.10

                                            Here is the Log File from the UI

                                            UPDATE PROCESS START [ 10/11/15 17:27:44 ]

                                            [ http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=dufcxgnbjsdwmwctgfuj&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz&username=MyUserName&pin=MyPinCode ]
                                            ** TERMINATED - Header contains Blank/International/Special or Spaces

                                            ===[  Aliastables / Rules  ]================================

                                            No Changes to Firewall Rules, Skipping Filter Reload
                                            No Changes to Aliases, Skipping pfctl Update

                                            UPDATE PROCESS ENDED

                                            So my first thought is to do pre-processing on these and rehost them.  That seems like a poor choice to just configuring the plugin correctly.  Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

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