PfBlockerNG v2.0 w/DNSBL

hda

Package update succeeded on the second reinstall from v1.10, after ~11 min. on an Alix pfSense 2.2.5 (ro). Thank you BBcan :)

Update: I followed BBcan's instructions below for starting DNSBL and that worked too. Excellent extension.

BBcan177

Here are some basic instructions to get started with DNSBL.

Open the pfBNG "DNSBL" Tab:

(Use the defaults unless you have a need to use otherwise)
Enter the DNSBL VIP as 10.10.10.1
Enter the DNSBL Listening Port as 8081
Enter the DNSBL SSL Listening port as 8443
Select the DNSBL Listening Interface as Lan

For the DNSBL Firewall Rule select all of the LAN subnets that access the DNS Resolver.
Ensure that all Devices that use the DNS Resolver, have the Resolver as its only DNS setting for DNSBL to function properly.

DNSBL IP Firewall Rule Settings:
Select Deny outbound or as per your requirements
select Enable logging

Alexa (is optional, you can skip this until later if you wish)
Select Top 1K
Select the TLD Inclusions as ca,co,com,io,me,net,org or as required.

In the Custom List you may enter any domain you wish to Whitelist.

Save your settings

Open the "DNSBL Feeds" Tab:

Create a new DNSBL Alias

Enter DNS Group Name as ADs
Enter Description as DNSBL ADverts

DNSBL:

Enter the Header/Label and Source URL as follows:
(Use copy/paste as plain text for the URL)

Format Auto and State ON

yoyo
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext

hpHosts_ads
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

Adaway
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt

Cameleon
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts

Select List Action as Unbound
Select Update Frequency as Once a day

Alexa:
Do not enable the Alexa Whitelist for this ADverts based alias, as Alexa also posts the top ADvert servers. So using Alexa whitelist, will interfere with ADvert Blocking.

Add any other domains that you wish to block in the Custom List.

Save your settings

Open the "DNSBL" Tab:

Click DNSBL Enable checkbox.
Save your settings

Open the "Update" Tab:

Select Force Update

You should now see the DNSBL Feeds being downloaded and parsed. Once that is complete, goto the Dashboard, and confirm that the widget is populated correctly.

Goto the pfBlockerNG "Alerts" Tab:

Any domain that is blocked will be reported here. For HTTPS alerts, the SRC IP and URL are not captured due to Browser security measures.

As a test, goto www.aol.com and www.yahoo.com and see some alerts populate.

There are several other DNSBL Feeds that can be used with pfBNG DNSBL. I will post that at a later date, once users get their basic configurations working. There is also an ADBlock Easylist tab, which is pretty self-explanatory.

n3by

@cmb:

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I largely relied on all your reports here for testing, only checking that the basics function and there isn't anything malicious, or grossly wrong at a glance.
...
Those who were beta testing, it'd help if you can reinstall latest from the standard package repo and report back.

Thanks BBCan!

uninstalled test 77 DEV and installed 2.0 from official on 2 boxes v2.2.4 & v2.2.5

At first look it was ok, up and running but I see that I have to manual start service```
dnsbl pfBlockerNG DNSBL Web Server

This service not running after update is something that I had before when beta testing on all boxes.

ntct

I also update from dev to 2.0, it work properly, a powerful package

Thanks! BBcan177

wcrowder

@cmb:

Those who were beta testing, it'd help if you can reinstall latest from the standard package repo and report back.

Thanks BBCan!

Done, ran the standard tests, all good. Thanks for all the work BB!

pfcode

Work like a charm, Thanks! For some reason, First attempt stuck at the 'Downloading MaxMind databases' part. Second attempt worked.

vito

@pfcode:

Work like a charm, Thanks! For some reason, First attempt stuck at the 'Downloading MaxMind databases' part. Second attempt worked.

I had this also, second time worked fine
prior, i was on the latest build of PFB 1.x

BBcan177

Looks like I have a file caching issue with the download function. I will get that resolved asap and add the relevant download code directly to the install code.

Bastion

Installed and configured with DNSBL, all went smoothly and working flawlessly since.

Great package by great people ! Many thanks BBcan177

Wolf666

After months of testing I just installed pfBlockerNG 2.0 from official repository, everything is ok.
Thanks BBCan, ottimo lavoro amico mio!

JasonJoel

@pfcode:

For some reason, First attempt stuck at the 'Downloading MaxMind databases' part. Second attempt worked.

Ditto. Worked on 2nd try.

I setup DNSBL per the instructions above, and it looks like everything is worked as advertised. Great work!

Jason

Ibor Daru

Excellent!!!

Confirmed also: second try (simply reinstalled package after first update attempt)

Really great job. Where can I donate?

trinidadrancheria

Installed, It stopped at the same place as most others, being lazy I refreshed which reinstalled it again :D (3 less clicks than packages/reinstall/confirm) :P

Working GREAT! Gonna enable DNSBL for INBOUND Monday (using Alias) :)

BBcan177

Here is a PR to fix the Installation issue being reported…

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/1189

Once this is merged, if anyone has similar issues, please report back. Thanks!

fraglord

If you move your configuration from DNS Forwarder to DNS Resolver in order to use pfBlockerNG: For multi-WAN configurations you have to have forwarding mode enabled. See also here: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Unbound_DNS_Resolver

Hugovsky

Thanks BBcan177, and everyone that made this package possible. Great jpb.

@fraglord:

If you move your configuration from DNS Forwarder to DNS Resolver in order to use pfBlockerNG: For multi-WAN configurations you have to have forwarding mode enabled. See also here: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Unbound_DNS_Resolver

Can you elaborate? I have multi-wan and forwarding disabled and everything works.

cmb

Latest PR merged.

Dpain

@BBcan177:

There are several other DNSBL Feeds that can be used with pfBNG DNSBL. I will post that at a later date, once users get their basic configurations working. There is also an ADBlock Easylist tab, which is pretty self-explanatory.

Huge thanks BBcan177!!! First off really looking forward to you posting more feeds, more importantly though where can I donate? I'd like to thank you, you have no idea I've been trying to block ads on my wireless devices and had been trying to do this on an Asus RT-68U (AP mode) with both tomato and merlin and was having issues. PfBlockerNG 2.0 has solved this issue for me, I no longer have to mess around with the Asus router and don't have to worry bout getting ads on my sons ipad/pc. I added a feed from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm would this work for host files as well? In the log it does seem to have downloaded the .txt file (see attached screenshot) Thanks again BBcan177 for your work!

BBcan177

Here are more DNSBL Feeds that can be used in pfBlockerNG.
(Copy and paste URLS as plain text)

Create a new alias for these.
These are not necessarily ADvert domains. So I named mine "Malicious"

hpHosts
http://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.zip

SWC
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

spam404
~~https://spam404bl.com/blacklist.txt~~
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/main-blacklist.txt

malc0de
https://malc0de.com/bl/BOOT

MDS (use 'Flex' state)
https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains

MVPS
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

MDL
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt

Discontinued
GJTech
http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=unix-hosts

dShield_SD (They also have a conservative list available)
https://www.dshield.org/feeds/suspiciousdomains_High.txt

Zeus
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist

These two feeds post full URLs, so there can be some more false positives.
Create a new Alias, and use Alexa as a recommendation.

PhishTank
https://data.phishtank.com/data/online-valid.csv.bz2

OpenPhish
https://www.openphish.com/feed.txt

MPatrol (You need to register - Free or Paid subscription. Use Danguardian feed)
https://lists.malwarepatrol.net

This is a feed that I manage (as time permits)
MS_2
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/4a8bf37c131be4803cb2/raw
Use this in its own Alias:

BBC_DGA (This is a large feed of DGA for the likes of Cryptolocker et al…)
http://osint.bambenekconsulting.com/feeds/dga-feed.gz

BBC_C2
http://osint.bambenekconsulting.com/feeds/c2-dommasterlist.txt

Use this feed in its own alias as it is updated more frequently.
So you can update it more often than once per day.

hpHosts_partial
http://hosts-file.net/hphosts-partial.asp

If users find other feeds, please post back so that others may benefit also.
Its also important to donate to the feeds provider (IP and/or Domain) as they all need support.

tonymorella

@BBcan177:

Here are some basic instructions to get started with DNSBL.

Open the pfBNG "DNSBL" Tab:

(Use the defaults unless you have a need to use otherwise)
Enter the DNSBL VIP as 10.10.10.1
Enter the DNSBL Listening Port as 8081
Enter the DNSBL SSL Listening port as 8443
Select the DNSBL Listening Interface as Lan

For the DNSBL Firewall Rule select all of the LAN subnets that access the DNS Resolver.
Ensure that all Devices that use the DNS Resolver, have the Resolver as its only DNS setting for DNSBL to function properly.

DNSBL IP Firewall Rule Settings:
Select Deny outbound or as per your requirements
select Enable logging

Alexa (is optional, you can skip this until later if you wish)
Select Top 1K
Select the TLD Inclusions as ca,co,com,io,me,net,org or as required.

In the Custom List you may enter any domain you wish to Whitelist.

Save your settings

Open the "DNSBL Feeds" Tab:

Create a new DNSBL Alias

Enter DNS Group Name as ADs
Enter Description as DNSBL ADverts

DNSBL:

Enter the Header/Label and Source URL as follows:
(Use copy/paste as plain text for the URL)

Format Auto and State ON

yoyo
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext

hpHosts_ads
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

Adaway
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt

Cameleon
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts

Select List Action as Unbound
Select Update Frequency as Once a day

Alexa:
Do not enable the Alexa Whitelist for this ADverts based alias, as Alexa also posts the top ADvert servers. So using Alexa whitelist, will interfere with ADvert Blocking.

Add any other domains that you wish to block in the Custom List.

Save your settings

Open the "DNSBL" Tab:

Click DNSBL Enable checkbox.
Save your settings

Open the "Update" Tab:

Select Force Update

You should now see the DNSBL Feeds being downloaded and parsed. Once that is complete, goto the Dashboard, and confirm that the widget is populated correctly.

Goto the pfBlockerNG "Alerts" Tab:

Any domain that is blocked will be reported here. For HTTPS alerts, the SRC IP and URL are not captured due to Browser security measures.

As a test, goto www.aol.com and www.yahoo.com and see some alerts populate.

There are several other DNSBL Feeds that can be used with pfBNG DNSBL. I will post that at a later date, once users get their basic configurations working. There is also an ADBlock Easylist tab, which is pretty self-explanatory.

Have been using the beta code for some time and noticed a list of domains in the Alexa top 1K that serve up ads, since I don't want this I added the following custom block list to my Ads DNS Group which will remove them from any DNS group that is using the Alexa top 1K filter.

popcash.net
www.popcash.net
outbrain.com
www.outbrain.com
onclickads.net
www.onclickads.net
googleadservices.com
www.googleadservices.com
adcash.com
www.adcash.com
popads.net
www.popads.net

To confirm make sure "Enable Alexa Whitelist" is NOT checked for this DNS group.