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    • RonpfSR
      RonpfS
      last edited by

      @senser:

      Is it possible to use DNSBL on a transparent firewall (none of the NIC's has an IP except for the Bridge itself (10.1.0.10))? I am asking because I tried and I can't seem to access the VIP at 172.16.15.14. I guess NAT does not work with bridges.. hmm, any help appreciated. I'd really like to use DNSBL! Thanks!

      What are the choice available DNSBL Listening Interface ?
      Did you look at the    Firewall / NAT / Port Forward tab?

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      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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        senser
        last edited by

        @RonpfS:

        What are the choice available DNSBL Listening Interface ?
        Did you look at the    Firewall / NAT / Port Forward tab?

        My choice for the listening interface is LAN and BRIDGE. Tried both but no dice. The Port Forward tab lookes similar to yours (technically the same) when I enable DNSBL.

        We use the mighty pf, we cannot be fooled.

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        • RonpfSR
          RonpfS
          last edited by

          No clue, no bridge here.
          Did you look at all posts in this thread and the pfBlockerNG thread to see if people had the same issues?

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          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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          • RonpfSR
            RonpfS
            last edited by

            Can you ping the VIP ?
            Can you access http://172.16.15.14
            Are all clients DNS using pfsense with DNSBL ?
            Anything in the Systems Log or Firewall Logs, pfblockerNG log files ?

            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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              senser
              last edited by

              @RonpfS:

              No clue, no bridge here.
              Did you look at all posts in this thread and the pfBlockerNG thread to see if people had the same issues?

              No, not yet.

              @RonpfS:

              Can you ping the VIP ?
              Can you access http://172.16.15.14
              Are all clients DNS using pfsense with DNSBL ?
              Anything in the Systems Log or Firewall Logs, pfblockerNG log files ?

              Can't ping or access it. I think it's because bridges usually don't do NAT and I don't think that there is a way to create the functionality DNSBL needs (services on port 80/443). but without using NAT. Please tell me I am wrong. :)

              We use the mighty pf, we cannot be fooled.

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                senser
                last edited by

                I found a way to use DNSBL on my transparent bridge! :D
                I configure DNSBL to listen on LAN at 10.10.10.1 as usual. But then (because I never get a reply from 10.10.10.1) I just reject all connections to "This Firewall" on ports 8081 and 8443.
                I won't get any stats or 1x1 gifs but web sites load fast and without ads. :)

                We use the mighty pf, we cannot be fooled.

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                  ProxyMoron
                  last edited by

                  Hey all,
                  I'm trying to set up PFBlockerNG with GeoIP to block everything apart from my country by only PERMITTING my country, rather than selecting everything apart from my country and blocking inbound.

                  So under GeoIP i have selected <mycountry>under Top 20 and then Permit Inbound

                  This creates a permit rule under floating rules but i think im confusing myself as to what is happening here.

                  I have a web server running on the WAN, for which i have a WAN rule that permits any source to port 80 and 443.  If there is a floating rule that allows UK IP's is that not allowing all UK IP's / Ports into my network? At what point does the float rule come into it?

                  What i want is for the firewall to check if the source is from the UK, if not block, then if its destined for port 80 or 443, if not block.

                  So under General - Rule Order should i select:-

                  pfB_Pass/Match | pfSense Pass/Match | pfB_Block/Reject | pfSense Block/Reject

                  or (leaning to this one)

                  pfSense Pass/Match | pfB_Pass/Match | pfB_Block/Reject | pfSense Block/Reject

                  Thinking it will match on 80 or 443 then match on UK.

                  Or something else, am i going about this the correct way? I kind of expected a blocking rule somewhere for ! <mycountry>Sorry - getting my head in a right pickle here.  ;D</mycountry></mycountry>

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                  • RonpfSR
                    RonpfS
                    last edited by

                    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102470.msg647719#msg647719

                    Then you can install or re-install the pfBlockerNG 2.1.1_2.
                    The install should update the MaxMind (this take 5+ minutes) and proceed to completion.

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                      nikkon
                      last edited by

                      hi all,

                      i have performed this change, still the pfBlockerNG is not seen anymore in gui.
                      anyone had this before?

                      pfsense 2.3.4 on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F + 8GB ECC + SSD

                      Happy PfSense user :)

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                      • RonpfSR
                        RonpfS
                        last edited by

                        Where does it fails when you install it ? There must be some hints in the installation logs, system log or pfblockerng log.

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                        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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                          nikkon
                          last edited by

                          php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dc

                          and as it's shown in the logs :

                          Download Process Starting [ 08/15/16 21:18:57 ]
                          /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat.gz            200 OK
                          /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat.gz          200 OK
                          /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip                200 OK
                          /var/db/pfblockerng/top-1m.csv.zip            200 OK
                          Download Process Ended [ 08/15/16 21:19:31 ]

                          Country code update Start
                          Converting MaxMind Country databases for pfBlockerNG.
                          Processing ISO IPv4 Continent/Country Data
                          Processing ISO IPv6 Continent/Country Data
                          Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files
                          IPv4 Africa
                          IPv6 Africa
                          IPv4 Antarctica
                          IPv6 Antarctica
                          IPv4 Asia
                          IPv6 Asia
                          IPv4 Europe
                          IPv6 Europe
                          IPv4 North America
                          IPv6 North America
                          IPv4 Oceania
                          IPv6 Oceania
                          IPv4 South America
                          IPv6 South America
                          IPv4 Proxy and Satellite
                          IPv6 Proxy and Satellite
                          IPv4 TOP 20
                          IPv6 TOP 20
                          Saving pfBlockerNG Reputation TAB
                          Country Code Update Ended - [ 08/15/16 21:24:37 ]

                          –-----

                          tail -f pfblockerng.log

                          DNSBL - Adding Unbound custom 'include' option

                          Saving new DNSBL web server configuration to port [ 8081 and 8443 ]
                          Saving pfSense config…
                          VIP address configured. Widget Packet statistics reset.
                          Restarting Service DNSBL...

                          **Saving configuration [ 08/15/16 19:16:28 ] …
                          Restarting Service DNSBL...

                          and stays like this for 20 minutes.

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                          pfsense 2.3.4 on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F + 8GB ECC + SSD

                          Happy PfSense user :)

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                          • RonpfSR
                            RonpfS
                            last edited by

                            Looks like the MaxMind database creation went ok.
                            Can you try to reinstall pfBlockerNG?

                            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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                              nikkon
                              last edited by

                              Just did this:

                              install log looks like :

                              Upgrading pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG…
                              Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                              pfSense-core repository is up-to-date.
                              Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                              pfSense repository is up-to-date.
                              All repositories are up-to-date.
                              Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
                              The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

                              Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
                              pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2 [pfSense]

                              Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1
                              [1/1] Reinstalling pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2…
                              [1/1] Extracting pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.1_2: …....... done
                              Removing pfBlockerNG components...
                              Menu items... done.
                              Services... done.
                              Loading package instructions...
                              Removing pfBlockerNG...cat: /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/.txt: No such file or directory
                              All customizations/data will be retained... done.
                              Saving updated package information...
                              overwrite!
                              Loading package configuration... done.
                              Configuring package components...
                              Loading package instructions...
                              Custom commands...
                              Executing custom_php_install_command()...
                              MaxMind GeoIP databases previously downloaded.
                              Adding pfBlockerNG Widget to the Dashboard... done.
                              Remove any existing and create link for DNSBL lighttpd executable... done.
                              Creating DNSBL web server start-up script... done.
                              Creating DNSBL web server config ... done.
                              Starting DNSBL Service... done.
                              Upgrading Adv. Inbound firewall rule settings ... no changes required ... done.
                              Custom commands completed ... done.
                              Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...1 table created.
                              1/1 addresses added.
                              cat: /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/
                              .txt: No such file or directory
                              pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed

                              Cleaning up cache... done.
                              Success


                              just after the refresh i got a crash report:

                              Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

                              amd64
                              10.3-RELEASE-p5
                              FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0 7307492(RELENG_2_3_2): Tue Jul 19 13:29:35 CDT 2016    root@ce23-amd64-builder:/builder/pfsense-232/tmp/obj/builder/pfsense-232/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense

                              Crash report details:

                              PHP Errors:
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc on line 3867
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP Stack trace:
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP  1. {main}() /etc/rc.start_packages:0
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP  2. sync_package() /etc/rc.start_packages:90
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP  3. eval() /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc:631
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP  4. sync_package_pfblockerng() /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc(631) : eval()'d code:3
                              [15-Aug-2016 21:57:31 Europe/Bucharest] PHP  5. file() /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc:3867

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                              • RonpfSR
                                RonpfS
                                last edited by

                                Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes)

                                This tells me you only have 100M for memory limit.
                                What are the fixes you applied up to now to the system?

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                                  nikkon
                                  last edited by

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

                                  pfb_global();

                                  // DNSBL Lighttpd HTTPS Daemon (Scans Lighttpd dnsbl_error.log for requested https domain names)
                                  if (isset($argv[1]) && $argv[1] == 'dnsbl') {
                                          set_time_limit(0);
                                          pfb_livetail($pfb['dnserrlog'], 'dnsbl');
                                          exit;
                                  }

                                  and i guess is default.

                                  and also usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php - not modified.

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                                  Happy PfSense user :)

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                                  • RonpfSR
                                    RonpfS
                                    last edited by

                                    And no modifications to  /etc/inc/config.inc or /usr/local/etc/php.ini, /etc/rc.php_ini_setup ?

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                                    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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                                      nikkon
                                      last edited by

                                      well based on my comments i did one to the first file:
                                      // Set memory limit to 512M on amd64.
                                      if ($ARCH == "amd64") {
                                              ini_set("memory_limit", "512M");
                                      } else {
                                              ini_set("memory_limit", "256M");  # increased from 128M
                                      }

                                      –--

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                                      Happy PfSense user :)

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                                      • RonpfSR
                                        RonpfS
                                        last edited by

                                        This change only affect i386 systems, you are on a amd64.
                                        Did you raise the System / Advanced / Firewall & NAT Firewall Maximum Table Entries ?

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                                        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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                                          nikkon
                                          last edited by

                                          no
                                          will do now. what's a starting value?

                                          i had 5000000 now i have 50000000

                                          pfsense 2.3.4 on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F + 8GB ECC + SSD

                                          Happy PfSense user :)

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                                          • RonpfSR
                                            RonpfS
                                            last edited by

                                            I think 2000000 is the default, 50000000 should be more than enuf.
                                            Do you see the pfblockerNG menu ?
                                            BTW how much free memory do you have ?

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                                            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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