PFBLOCKERNG DNSBL update failing

jbedgood

Well it possible to download the log to your computer and look at it with a text editor.
Now you don't have much to debug the failure mode.

Go to Diagnostice Command prompt and execute
ps -axwwwll | grep pfb
Do you see many pfblockerng.php running?

No I manually kill the process because it just hangs there. So there is none running right now. If I run the update again there will be one process running and won't stop unless I manually stop it. I have let it go for days in the past to see if it would complete and it never did.

RonpfS

@jbedgood:

I had cleared the logs so I could find the hang because there was so much in there I couldn't tell where it was. So there is no successful attempts in it any longer.

Go to the Firewall / pfBlockerNG / Log Browser and look at the files. You can download them in that tab.

What about a screen shots of the DNSBL feeds ?

Disable all DNSBL feeds excepts DNSBL EasyList, hit Force Reload All and post the log.

jbedgood

@RonpfS:

@jbedgood:

I had cleared the logs so I could find the hang because there was so much in there I couldn't tell where it was. So there is no successful attempts in it any longer.

Go to the Firewall / pfBlockerNG / Log Browser and look at the files. You can download them in that tab.

What about a screen shots of the DNSBL feeds ?

Disable all DNSBL feeds excepts DNSBL EasyList, hit Force Reload All and post the log.

These are the only log files that had anything in them

[log files.zip](/public/imported_attachments/1/log files.zip)

RonpfS

No extras.log ? maxmind_ver ? dnsbl.log error.log ? or you empty them?

jbedgood

@RonpfS:

No extras.log ? maxmind_ver ? dnsbl.log error.log ? or you empty them?

I had emptied them all before and when I do the for reload all nothing shows up in them.

RonpfS

Why? :o

You lost the history of what happened. Log files don't do any harm to the system and will not break anything in pfblockerNG.

Just a wild guess would be to put something in the description field but it may not change anything.

RonpfS

Are you able to download the Easylist URL https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist_noelemhide.txt &
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt ?

Nothing is blocking in the FW logs?

jbedgood

@RonpfS:

Why? :o

You lost the history of what happened. Log files don't do any harm to the system and will not break anything in pfblockerNG.

Just a wild guess would be to put something in the description field but it may not change anything.

I cleared the logs to find the error easier but the logs weren't showing any real errors so it was a lost cause no matter what for that.

RonpfS

What did you select in the Alexa Whitelist ? It hangs with Top 750K and Top 1M :(

BBcan177

Hi jbedgood,

I see the issue and will get that fixed in the next release… In the meantime, I have PM'd you a fix.

Thanks for reporting...