PfBlockerNG v2.1 w/TLD

[someuser123]

pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_1 is working like charm, On 2.3.3-DEVELOPMENT (amd64) no issues.

TLD Blacklist is really handy, Thanks BBcan177

[BBcan177]

Here are the links for Malware Corpus Tracker which can be used w/ pfBlockerNG DNSBL:

Site:
http://track.h3x.eu/about/400

Available Feeds:
https://tracker.h3x.eu/api/sites_1month.php
https://tracker.h3x.eu/api/sites_1week.php
https://tracker.h3x.eu/api/sites_1day.php
https://tracker.h3x.eu/api/sites_1hour.php

DO NOT Select all of these Feeds. You should pick only one Feed. For example: the "1Month" will include the "1Week/1Day/1Hour".

[ Edit - change to https ]

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/h3x2b

[ntct]

Hi BBcan177,

I can't update h3x feed from available feeds list in pfBlockerNG v2.1.

It show below.

[ h3x ]			 Downloading update .. 200 OK
 Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

And I can't let TLD Exclusion List working. Can you give a example or check it works?

[RonpfS]

@ntct:

Hi BBcan177,

I can't update h3x feed from available feeds list in pfBlockerNG v2.1.

It show below.

[ h3x ]			 Downloading update .. 200 OK
 Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

Same here

@ntct:

And I can't let TLD Exclusion List working. Can you give a example or check it works?

Did you do a Force Reload after changing the list ?

[hulleyrob]

[ 1month ]		 Downloading update .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

[ 1week ]		 Downloading update [ 07/30/16 12:31:20 ] .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

[ 1day ]		 Downloading update .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

[ 1hour ]		 Downloading update .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

Me three, anyone post how exactly you get these list working?

[BBcan177]

Here is a patch to fix the H3X Feed…  Sorry about that  ...

@BBcan177:

Here are the links for Malware Corpus Tracker which can be used w/ pfBlockerNG DNSBL:

UPDATE:

Guess the internal QA testing didn't work too well when I tested this Feed.
Please follow these instructions below to patch the code to get the following feed to parse:

Edit     /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc

Goto Line 3368 which contains the following:

$h3x_feed = TRUE;

Reference:
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/blob/devel/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc#L3368

and add the following line after line 3368:

$liteparser = TRUE;

Then follow that with a    "Force Update"

[BBcan177]

@ntct:

And I can't let TLD Exclusion List working. Can you give a example or check it works?

Can you provide more detail about what you're trying to accomplish?

[hulleyrob]

Works for me.

For the lazy:

vi +3368 /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc

to go straight to the line.

Thanks BBcan

[BBcan177]

I have posted a PR #164 to fix the H3x parser issue noted above.
‎https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/164‎

Once this is merged the pkg will be at version 2.1.1_2.

If you manually edited the file noted above, or not, you do not need to make any further changes with this version.

[oddworld19]

…...and I'm buying another 8 gigs RAM tonight (from 8G to 16G) now that unbound is VIRT 12.3G and I've swapped 6G.

Worth it though.

[Andrew453]

Hi BBcan177

Thanks for implementing this.  Would you be able to explain a bit more what the role of the /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/dnsbl_tld file is please?

I was expecting it to contain a pure list of TLDs which pfblockerng can then use to work out whether any given domain is a second level domain or higher.  But it seems itself to contain some second level domains?

That said, when I've looked that the /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl.conf on my set up that pfblockerng has created, it does contain exactly what I would expect to see (i.e. full blocking of the entire domain for second level domains, but only specific blocking for higher level domains).  So it does seem to be doing exactly what I'd like it to, but I'm not sure how the dnsbl_tld file is working to do that.

Thanks.

[Qinn]

Hi BBcan177,

Is there any good install/setup/configure instruction (video or guide) for the last version op pfblockerNG, that you could/would recommend?

Thanks for your advice, cheers Qinn

[BBcan177]

@Andrew453:

I was expecting it to contain a pure list of TLDs which pfblockerng can then use to work out whether any given domain is a second level domain or higher.  But it seems itself to contain some second level domains?

Hi Andrew453,

If I only used the TLD, it would be a simple process of looking at any listed Domain and seeing if it had only a second-level Domain (SLD) then block the entire Domain. However, there are suffixes like "uk.com" which is what I would call the TLD that is used to determine if there is one more level. So all of the TLDs (suffixes) in that file are known TLDs which is used in the determination process. Most of the file was taken from the "Public Suffix Registry".

[BBcan177]

@Qinn:

Hi BBcan177,

Is there any good install/setup/configure instruction (video or guide) for the last version op pfblockerNG, that you could/would recommend?

Thanks for your advice, cheers Qinn

There is a pfSense Hangout that I did which can be used for an overview of the pkg functionality. However, apart from the three main pfBlockerNG threads in this forum, there isn't any other documentation.

[Qinn]

Thanks for the quick reply. Darn  :( I found this one can you can agree to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhDOaH0q5U

[Andrew453]

@BBcan177:

@Andrew453:

I was expecting it to contain a pure list of TLDs which pfblockerng can then use to work out whether any given domain is a second level domain or higher.  But it seems itself to contain some second level domains?

Hi Andrew453,

If I only used the TLD, it would be a simple process of looking at any listed Domain and seeing if it had only a second-level Domain (SLD) then block the entire Domain. However, there are suffixes like "uk.com" which is what I would call the TLD that is used to determine if there is one more level. So all of the TLDs (suffixes) in that file are known TLDs which is used in the determination process. Most of the file was taken from the "Public Suffix Registry".

Yes ok.  That's exactly what I thought the file was for.  (i.e. some eTLDs are longer than others, so you need a list e.g. .com vs .co.uk to work out what to treat as an eTLD)

The thing that was confusing me was there were some domains in the list that looked a bit odd, e.g.

myactivedirectory.com
mydrobo.com
mysecuritycamera.com
myshopblocks.com
myvnc.com

I think all you're saying is that pfblockerng will treat those as eTLDs even though, strictly speaking, they aren't … which is fine.

p.s. a big thank you for implementing this.  It was on my wish-list as I recall - https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106534

[Guest]

@RonpfS:

@ntct:

Hi BBcan177,

I can't update h3x feed from available feeds list in pfBlockerNG v2.1.

It show below.

[ h3x ]			 Downloading update .. 200 OK
 Remote timestamp missing 
 No Domains Found

Same here

@ntct:

And I can't let TLD Exclusion List working. Can you give a example or check it works?

Did you do a Force Reload after changing the list ?

I'm on 2.1.1_2, the h3x fix is included, but I get the same error as above.

I tried with Update, Cron , Reload.

[ malw_corpus ] Downloading update .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing
No Domains Found

[MoonKnight]

Hi,
Thank you for your hard work on this package :)

After updating to 2.1.1_2 i can't "clear DNSBL Packets" from the pfBlockerNG widge
The DNSBL_EasyList won't delete the packets

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[RonpfS]

@Redyr:

I'm on 2.1.1_2, the h3x fix is included, but I get the same error as above.

I tried with Update, Cron , Reload.

[ malw_corpus ] Downloading update .. 200 OK
  Remote timestamp missing
No Domains Found

Each URL contains sites that were active in the last period (month, week, day or hour).

If you look at the 1hour or the 1day csv file, they only have one comment. The 1week and 1month have entries.

You should only choose one of the feeds according to your need. I guess most will pick the 1month URL.

[pftdm007]

Not sure if this is related to pfblockerNG (2.1 w/ TLD) but I went to the package manager to install a package, and saw that my copy of pfblockerNG was outdated, so I clicked the yellow round arrow to update the package.  It went well, but immediately after I returned to the package manager I was greeted with a red ribbon saying "Unable to retrieve package information".  This happens for the "Installed Packages as well as "Available Packages" tabs!

On the main page, I see "Obtaining update status ", then it turns to "Unable to check for updates".

Tried disabling both pfblockerNG and DNSBL to no avail.  Snort is disabled and the blocked hosts list is empty.

Now I cannot update, install or uninstall packages….  How do I remedy to this?