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      chain
      last edited by

      When creating the Alias are you add them into a larger group or are you leaving them as they are individual items? Is there a limitation on amount of alias you can add to a group?

      @BBcan177:

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

      1. 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

      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

      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

      1. 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

      1. This is a feed that I manage (as time permits)
        MS_2
        https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/4a8bf37c131be4803cb2/raw

      2. 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

      1. 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.

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        chain
        last edited by

        Did you create a group per each item that is shown below?

        @tonymorella:

        Few things I found out while beta testing V2

        • First rule is take your time and be patient. Adding to may rules at once will casue alot of blocks you may or may not way. Wildcards are not supported, or wanted in most cases. For example adding google.com does not filter all the hosts for the domain, need to add each host that is being blocked to the filter lists
        • Make sure to double check ASN's, especially for large companies that have acquired other companies, more than one ASN might exist
          *** Unbound has an issue in my setup using OpenVPN connected to PIA. It does not start correctly when a network issue is sensed,  em1 or openvpn interfaces flap for example. The core problem seems to be how the rc scripts handle unbound reload.  They do a HUP vs reload to get around the cache being lost. Disabling "DHCP Registration" or "Static DHCP" was a workaround that allowed unbound to start correctly.
        • Checking "DHCP Registration" or "Static DHCP" causes other issues with unbound, this is a know issue being talked about in the DNS forum.  I added all my hosts host to unbound statically as a work around
        • I wanted to have my allow rules > pfb block rules > my block rules > my per interface rules.  Did this by enabling "Floating Rules" and using "pfb_pass/match  | pfsense pass/match |  pfb_block/reject"
        • If you have WIFI make sure to enable "DNSBL Firewall Rule" and select both LAN and WIFI or the NAT: Port Forward rule for 10.10.10.1 is not setup correctly.  If you don't change this setting things still work but everything runs slow over wifi.
        • Make sure to whitelist all the DNSBL sites FQDN via an allow aliases, some IPv4 block-lists include the IP space the DNSBL are found in
        • DBSBL is basicly a man in the middle for DNS so any site that is block but running https will create warrnings. Depending on how the brower is setup it might just ignore or not display the error.  CTRL+SHIFT+I on both Chrome and Firebox will bring up dev panel where you can see which pages are not loading. Chrome will show an error, Firefox will show a red slash throught the lock icon.
        • 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. To confirm make sure "Enable Alexa Whitelist" is NOT checked for this DNS group.
        popcash.net
        www.popcash.net
        cdn.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
        popmyads.com
        www.popmyads.com
        
        
        • List of domains added to DNSBL Custom Domain Suppression to stop them from being blocked
        
        goo.gl
        google.com
        www.google.com
        mail.google.com
        docs.google.com
        sites.google.com
        fonts.googleapis.com
        cache.google.com
        clients.google.com
        clients0.google.com
        clients1.google.com
        clients2.google.com
        clients3.google.com
        clients4.google.com
        clients5.google.com
        clients6.google.com
        clients7.google.com
        clients8.google.com
        clients9.google.com
        www.maxmind.com
        s3.amazonaws.com
        fls-na.amazon.com
        login.live.com
        redis.io
        pgl.yoyo.org
        someonewhocares.org
        www.thingamajob.com
        winhelp2002.mvps.org
        hosts-file.net
        www.hosts-file.net
        adaway.org
        sysctl.org
        adblock.gjtech.net
        www.dshield.org
        malwaredomainlist.com
        malwaredomains.com
        bambenekconsulting.com
        malwarepatrol.net
        zeustracker.abuse.ch
        malc0de.com
        curl.haxx.se
        dl.dropboxusercontent.com
        whois.cymru.com
        github.com
        collector-cdn.github.com
        pivotal.github.com
        cloud.github.com
        raw.githubusercontent.com
        raw.github.com
        stopforumspam.com
        www.stopforumspam.com
        sourceforge.net
        www.sourceforge.net
        iweb.dl.sourceforge.net
        chase.com
        www.chase.com
        mint.com
        www.mint.com
        americanexpress.com
        www.americanexpress.com
        online.americanexpress.com
        linuxquestions.org
        www.linuxquestions.org
        optimizely.com
        www.optimizely.com
        api.optimizely.com
        cdn.optimizely.com
        cdn2.optimizely.com
        cdn3.optimizely.com
        slashdot.org
        www.slashdot.org
        ebay.com
        www.ebay.com
        rover.ebay.com
        srx.main.ebayrtm.com
        openbl.org
        www.openbl.org
        www.us.openbl.org
        delta.com
        www.delta.com
        aa.com
        www.aa.com
        cruisesonly.com
        www.cruisesonly.com
        ripe.net
        www.ripe.net
        weather.com
        www.weather.com
        lacnic.net
        www.lacnic.net
        tvrage.com
        services.tvrage.com
        www.tvrage.com
        publicbt.com
        device.maxmind.com
        www.boingo.com
        xda-developers.com
        www.xda-developers.com
        forum.xda-developers.com
        opengapps.org
        download.mono-project.com
        
        
        • Ads DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: NOT Enabled

        • Add Custom Block List noted above

        
        http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintextoup	yoyo
        http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt							hphosts_ats
        https://adaway.org/hosts.txt								adaway
        http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts							syctrl
        http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=unix-hosts						gjtech
        
        
        • Privacy Fraud DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: Enabled

        
        https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt			disconnect_basic
        http://hosts-file.net/fsa.txt								hphost_fsa
        http://hosts-file.net/hjk.txt								hphost_hjk
        http://hosts-file.net/pha.txt								hphost_psh
        https://www.dshield.org/feeds/suspiciousdomains_High.txt				dshield_sdh
        
        
        • Malware Exploit DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: Enabled

        
        https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt			disconnect_malvertising
        http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt					malwaredomainlist
        http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains					malwaredomains			
        https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt				disconnect_malware
        http://hosts-file.net/emd.txt								hphosts_emd
        http://hosts-file.net/exp.txt								hphosts_exp
        http://hosts-file.net/mmt.txt								hphosts_mmt
        https://lists.malwarepatrol.net/cgi/getfile?receipt=f1442112770&product=8&list=dansguardian malwarepatrol
        https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist			zeustracker
        https://malc0de.com/bl/BOOT								malc0de
        
        
        • SPAM DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: Enabled

        
        http://hosts-file.net/grm.txt								hphost_grm
        http://hosts-file.net/hfs.txt								hphost_hfs
        https://spam404bl.com/blacklist.txt							spam_404
        
        
        • Malicious DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: Enabled

        
        http://hosts-file.net/hphosts-partial.txt						hphost_partial
        http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt							mvps_hosts
        http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts							SomeoneWhoCares
        https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/4a8bf37c131be4803cb2/raw			BBcan177
        
        
        • BambenekConsulting DNS Group

        • Update Frequency: Once a Day

        • Enable Alexa Whitelist: Enabled

        
        http://osint.bambenekconsulting.com/feeds/dga-feed.gz					bambenek_dga
        http://osint.bambenekconsulting.com/feeds/c2-dommasterlist.txt				bambenek_c2
        
        

        Thanks
        Tony M.**

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        • BBcan177B
          BBcan177 Moderator
          last edited by

          @chain:

          When creating the Alias are you add them into a larger group or are you leaving them as they are individual items? Is there a limitation on amount of alias you can add to a group?

          That is personal preference… There is no limit to either method...

          I prefer to create an "ADs" alias, "Malicious" Alias etc instead of making an Alias with a single feed in it.... The other post that you linked has the "DNS Group Name" listed also for your reference...

          "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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            cjbujold
            last edited by

            Getting error when rebooting with latest PFblockerng  not certain what the error is.  Any help on how to fix would be appreciated.

            Thanks

            12-26-15 11:48:19 [ PF was wedged/busy and has been reset.]
            12-26-15 11:48:40 [ There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCXCOMMIT: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: ]
            12-26-15 11:49:15 [ Unresolvable source alias pfB_Top_v4 for rule pfB_Top_v4 auto rule]
            12-26-15 11:49:17 [ Unresolvable source alias pfB_Top_v6 for rule pfB_Top_v6 auto rule]
            12-26-15 11:49:19 [ Unresolvable destination alias pfB_Top_v4 for rule pfB_Top_v4 auto rule]
            12-26-15 11:49:21 [ Unresolvable destination alias pfB_Top_v6 for rule pfB_Top_v6 auto rule]

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              Hugovsky
              last edited by

              That error is normal. It's because when you reboot pfsense, pfblock needs some time to make the alias and the firewall complains about it.

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              • BBcan177B
                BBcan177 Moderator
                last edited by

                @cjbujold:

                Getting error when rebooting with latest PFblockerng

                12-26-15 11:48:19 [ PF was wedged/busy and has been reset.]
                12-26-15 11:48:40 [ There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCXCOMMIT: Device busy - The line in question reads [0]: ]

                The error "PF was wedged/busy and has been reset" is an issue… When using "Alias type" rules, you can sometimes get an error when re-installing the package, or rebooting if you have a nanobsd or ramdisk installation; however, this error is indicating an error in loading the rules.  Not enough information to help you diagnose it... If it persists, maybe try to uncheck "Keep Settings", and disable pfBlockerNG, then "Save". Following that re-check "Keep Settings", and re-enable, followed by a "Force Reload"... There can also be an issue with a non-pfBNG rule that is causing this issue.

                "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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                  Venlaw
                  last edited by

                  Why is it that my whitelist keeps getting pushed to the bottom of my floating firewall rules when it is at the top in the IPv4 lists? It was added after the blocklists, but as stated, its been moved to the top in the IPv4 tab in pfBlockerNG? I have to manually move it to the top of the floating firewall rules every reload.

                  CPU: Celeron G1610 MB: Intel DQ77KB RAM: 4GB Corsair Vengeance Storage: 16GB SanDisk mSATA SSD NIC: Dual Onboard Intel (VLANs) WAN: 50/5mbps

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                  • BBcan177B
                    BBcan177 Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Select the "Rule Order" setting that is appropriate for your setup in the General Tab.

                    "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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                      Venlaw
                      last edited by

                      Thank You.

                      CPU: Celeron G1610 MB: Intel DQ77KB RAM: 4GB Corsair Vengeance Storage: 16GB SanDisk mSATA SSD NIC: Dual Onboard Intel (VLANs) WAN: 50/5mbps

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                        Ramosel
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                        @tonymorella:

                        Few things I found out while beta testing V2

                        • Unbound has an issue in my setup using OpenVPN connected to PIA. It does not start correctly when a network issue is sensed,  em1 or openvpn interfaces flap for example. The core problem seems to be how the rc scripts handle unbound reload.  They do a HUP vs reload to get around the cache being lost. Disabling "DHCP Registration" or "Static DHCP" was a workaround that allowed unbound to start correctly.

                        • Checking "DHCP Registration" or "Static DHCP" causes other issues with unbound, this is a know issue being talked about in the DNS forum.  I added all my hosts host to unbound statically as a work around

                        Tony M.

                        Tony, there are some recent posts from people either trying to get OpenVPN/PIA and pfBlockerNG/DNSBL working together or like me, looking to head that direction after I get some other fine tuning in place.  Can you please elaborate or cookbook your setup if it is indeed working correctly.

                        For the 5 folks who asked me privately to keep you informed if I get any info on this…  I'll be asking these questions publicly.    If someone does respond privately I'll forward responses only if the OP approves.  Really, no one here bites (well, maybe Dok - grin)

                        Rick

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                          wiz561
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                          I am trying to setup the DNSBL portion of pfblocker and ran into a strange problem.  I have a pretty restrictive firewall setup where it's pretty much default deny; allow by exception.  When setting up the DNSBL portion, I see that the workstations are just timing out when accessing a known blocked site in the DNSBL.  In the firewall logs for pfsense, I see the workstation trying to get to 127.0.0.1:8081.  I fixed this timeout by adding the 127.0.0.1:8081 in the firewall and now it works properly.

                          Why does DNSBL try doing a localhost instead of the 10.10.10.1?

                          Thanks!

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                          • RonpfSR
                            RonpfS
                            last edited by

                            DNSBL create a NAT port forward to 127.0.0.1

                            ![DSNBL NAT 3.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/DSNBL NAT 3.jpg)
                            ![DSNBL NAT 3.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/DSNBL NAT 3.jpg_thumb)

                            2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                            Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                            Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                              wiz561
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                              @RonpfS:

                              DNSBL create a NAT port forward to 127.0.0.1

                              Makes sense.  Thank  You!

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                                chain
                                last edited by

                                @RonpfS:

                                DNSBL create a NAT port forward to 127.0.0.1

                                Do you need to create different Port Forward for different zone i.e LAN, WIFI, Guest?

                                I see alot of DNSBL alert, but no permit or match? is this working correctly?

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                                • BBcan177B
                                  BBcan177 Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  @chain:

                                  @RonpfS:

                                  DNSBL create a NAT port forward to 127.0.0.1

                                  Do you need to create different Port Forward for different zone i.e LAN, WIFI, Guest?

                                  I see alot of DNSBL alert, but no permit or match? is this working correctly?

                                  No you do not need to create any additional NAT rules.. However, in the general tab, you can click the checkbox to create a 'Floating permit rule' for other LAN subnets (WIFI, Guest etc…) to access the DNSBL VIP address. Also ensure that you do not have any other restrictive rules (as wiz561 posted above).

                                  Not sure what you mean by "Permit and Match" as that only refers to IP rules, and not DNSBL?

                                  "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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                                  • ExolonE
                                    Exolon
                                    last edited by

                                    @BBcan17,

                                    The wrench/spanner/settings icon for the pfBlocker widget doesn't work with pfSense 2.3/ pfBlockerNG 2.0.6,

                                    Appears you just need to an ID statement to the DIV tag to the pfblockerng.widget.php (line 500 approx.):

                                    
                                    Not really worth me putting a pull request just for this, but maybe something for your next pull request?
                                    
                                    
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                                    • BBcan177B
                                      BBcan177 Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      @Exolon:

                                      Not really worth me putting a pull request just for this, but maybe something for your next pull request?

                                      Thanks Exolon, I guess one of the latest pfSense commits broke that ;) I have tested the change at line 500 and it seems to correct the issue…

                                      Thanks!

                                      "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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                                        chain
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                                        When DNSBL is running, I have looked at the Alerts to find site is working, but not able to see the images. How do I find what is blocking the site images

                                        http://kregjig.ning.com/

                                        image.PNG
                                        image.PNG_thumb

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                                        • BBcan177B
                                          BBcan177 Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @chain:

                                          When DNSBL is running, I have looked at the Alerts to find site is working, but not able to see the images. How do I find what is blocking the site images

                                          http://kregjig.ning.com/

                                          Click F12 in the browser and goto "console" it will show the domains that are blocked… Its also visible in the Alerts tab. You can also suppress a domain by clicking the "+" icon in the Alerts Tab.

                                          "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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                                            chain
                                            last edited by

                                            @BBcan177:

                                            @chain:

                                            When DNSBL is running, I have looked at the Alerts to find site is working, but not able to see the images. How do I find what is blocking the site images

                                            http://kregjig.ning.com/

                                            Click F12 in the browser and goto "console" it will show the domains that are blocked… Its also visible in the Alerts tab. You can also suppress a domain by clicking the "+" icon in the Alerts Tab.

                                            OK, that's perfect I'll try to getting it working

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