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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by

      I just installed it... Not seeing any problems running 2.4.3p1

      >>> Installing 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.
      The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
      
      New packages to be INSTALLED:
      	pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG: 2.1.2_3 [pfSense]
      	lighttpd: 1.4.48_1 [pfSense]
      	lua52: 5.2.4 [pfSense]
      	whois: 5.2.17 [pfSense]
      	GeoIP: 1.6.11 [pfSense]
      	grepcidr: 2.0 [pfSense]
      	aggregate: 1.6_1 [pfSense]
      	pecl-intl: 3.0.0_11 [pfSense]
      	icu: 60.2_1,1 [pfSense]
      
      Number of packages to be installed: 9
      
      The process will require 49 MiB more space.
      10 MiB to be downloaded.
      [1/9] Fetching pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3.txz: .......... done
      [2/9] Fetching lighttpd-1.4.48_1.txz: .......... done
      [3/9] Fetching lua52-5.2.4.txz: .......... done
      [4/9] Fetching whois-5.2.17.txz: ........ done
      [5/9] Fetching GeoIP-1.6.11.txz: .......... done
      [6/9] Fetching grepcidr-2.0.txz: ... done
      [7/9] Fetching aggregate-1.6_1.txz: .. done
      [8/9] Fetching pecl-intl-3.0.0_11.txz: .......... done
      [9/9] Fetching icu-60.2_1,1.txz: .......... done
      Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
      [1/9] Installing lua52-5.2.4...
      [1/9] Extracting lua52-5.2.4: ......... done
      [2/9] Installing icu-60.2_1,1...
      [2/9] Extracting icu-60.2_1,1: .......... done
      [3/9] Installing lighttpd-1.4.48_1...
      ===> Creating groups.
      Using existing group 'www'.
      ===> Creating users
      Using existing user 'www'.
      [3/9] Extracting lighttpd-1.4.48_1: .......... done
      [4/9] Installing whois-5.2.17...
      [4/9] Extracting whois-5.2.17: .......... done
      [5/9] Installing GeoIP-1.6.11...
      [5/9] Extracting GeoIP-1.6.11: .......... done
      [6/9] Installing grepcidr-2.0...
      [6/9] Extracting grepcidr-2.0: ..... done
      [7/9] Installing aggregate-1.6_1...
      [7/9] Extracting aggregate-1.6_1: .... done
      [8/9] Installing pecl-intl-3.0.0_11...
      [8/9] Extracting pecl-intl-3.0.0_11: .......... done
      [9/9] Installing pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3...
      Extracting pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3: .......... done
      Saving updated package information...
      done.
      Loading package configuration... done.
      Configuring package components...
      Loading package instructions...
      Custom commands...
      Executing custom_php_install_command()...
      Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases. This may take a minute...
       GeoIP.dat... done.
       GeoIPv6.dat... done.
       GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip... done.
      Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases... done.
      Converting MaxMind GeoIP databases for pfBlockerNG.
       This may take a few minutes...
      Country code update Start [ 06/12/18 10:39:01 ]
       Converting MaxMind Country databases for pfBlockerNG.
       Processing ISO IPv4 Continent/Country Data
       Processing ISO IPv6 Continent/Country Data [ 06/12/18 10:39:32 ]
      Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files...
       Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files
       IPv4 Africa			 [ 06/12/18 10:39:40 ]
       IPv6 Africa			 [ 06/12/18 10:39:41 ]
       IPv4 Antarctica		
       IPv6 Antarctica		
       IPv4 Asia			
       IPv6 Asia			 [ 06/12/18 10:39:44 ]
       IPv4 Europe			 [ 06/12/18 10:39:45 ]
       IPv6 Europe			 [ 06/12/18 10:39:56 ]
       IPv4 North America		 [ 06/12/18 10:40:00 ]
       IPv6 North America		 [ 06/12/18 10:40:08 ]
       IPv4 Oceania			 [ 06/12/18 10:40:09 ]
       IPv6 Oceania			 [ 06/12/18 10:40:10 ]
       IPv4 South America		
       IPv6 South America		 [ 06/12/18 10:40:11 ]
       IPv4 Proxy and Satellite	
       IPv6 Proxy and Satellite	 [ 06/12/18 10:40:12 ]
       IPv4 TOP 20			
       IPv6 TOP 20			
       pfBlockerNG Reputation Tab
      Country Code Update Ended
      
      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.
      Upgrading Adv. Inbound firewall rule settings ... no changes required ... done.
      Custom commands completed ... done.
      Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
      Menu items... done.
      Services... done.
      Writing configuration... done.
      Message from lua52-5.2.4:
      
      ===>   NOTICE:
      
      The lua52 port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
      more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
      the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:
      
      https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla
      
      More information about port maintainership is available at:
      
      https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html#maintain-port
      Message from GeoIP-1.6.11:
      
      GeoIP does not ship with the actual data files. You must download
      them yourself! Please run:
      # /usr/local/bin/geoipupdate.sh
      >>> Cleaning up cache... done.
      Success
      

      0_1528818272599_pfblocker.png

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      If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
      Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
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      • M
        MeeleIkon
        last edited by MeeleIkon

        How would I reinstall pkg_edit.php?

        I am getting it intermittently, I have 48 pfsense firewalls.

        I first noticed it on my home firewall when 2.4.3 was just released, probably the Saturday after, my kids were yelling they had no internet, pfblocker stopped allowing all traffic, so I disabled it and it worked, so I updated to 2.4.3 and the pfblocker entry was gone, so I tried re-installing no dice, so I just removed it and went about my day. It's my home firewall, my only open ports are SSLVPN and Plex.

        Then yesterday, I was fixing a client's mailserver, they had an accounting email that kept getting locked out. Well the mailserver was blocking password guessing attempts from china/india and amsterdam. That's when I went to install pfblockerng and it didn't work. I futzed around with it.
        Then today I went on to my office firewall and installed pfblocker and it also did not add the link.

        However not a week or two ago, I had set up no issues pfblocker on 3 other firewalls.

        They are all at 2.4.3 non p1 (except for a few) and I centrally manage them, so I have cron also installed. Also on most of the firewalls I have openvpn-client-export.

        0_1528827648580_bdi_pfblockerng_installedpackages.PNG

        0_1528827710007_bdi_pfblockerng_nopf.PNG

        I just did it on another firewall:

        >>> Installing 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.
        The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
        
        New packages to be INSTALLED:
        	pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG: 2.1.2_3 [pfSense]
        	lighttpd: 1.4.48_1 [pfSense]
        	lua52: 5.2.4 [pfSense]
        	whois: 5.2.17 [pfSense]
        	GeoIP: 1.6.11 [pfSense]
        	grepcidr: 2.0 [pfSense]
        	aggregate: 1.6_1 [pfSense]
        	pecl-intl: 3.0.0_11 [pfSense]
        	icu: 60.2_1,1 [pfSense]
        
        Number of packages to be installed: 9
        
        The process will require 49 MiB more space.
        10 MiB to be downloaded.
        [1/9] Fetching pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3.txz: .......... done
        [2/9] Fetching lighttpd-1.4.48_1.txz: .......... done
        [3/9] Fetching lua52-5.2.4.txz: .......... done
        [4/9] Fetching whois-5.2.17.txz: ........ done
        [5/9] Fetching GeoIP-1.6.11.txz: .......... done
        [6/9] Fetching grepcidr-2.0.txz: ... done
        [7/9] Fetching aggregate-1.6_1.txz: .. done
        [8/9] Fetching pecl-intl-3.0.0_11.txz: .......... done
        [9/9] Fetching icu-60.2_1,1.txz: .......... done
        Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
        [1/9] Installing lua52-5.2.4...
        [1/9] Extracting lua52-5.2.4: ......... done
        [2/9] Installing icu-60.2_1,1...
        [2/9] Extracting icu-60.2_1,1: .......... done
        [3/9] Installing lighttpd-1.4.48_1...
        ===> Creating groups.
        Using existing group 'www'.
        ===> Creating users
        Using existing user 'www'.
        [3/9] Extracting lighttpd-1.4.48_1: .......... done
        [4/9] Installing whois-5.2.17...
        [4/9] Extracting whois-5.2.17: .......... done
        [5/9] Installing GeoIP-1.6.11...
        [5/9] Extracting GeoIP-1.6.11: .......... done
        [6/9] Installing grepcidr-2.0...
        [6/9] Extracting grepcidr-2.0: ..... done
        [7/9] Installing aggregate-1.6_1...
        [7/9] Extracting aggregate-1.6_1: .... done
        [8/9] Installing pecl-intl-3.0.0_11...
        [8/9] Extracting pecl-intl-3.0.0_11: .......... done
        [9/9] Installing pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3...
        Extracting pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-2.1.2_3: .......... done
        Saving updated package information...
        done.
        Loading package configuration... done.
        Configuring package components...
        Loading package instructions...
        Custom commands...
        Executing custom_php_install_command()...
        Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases. This may take a minute...
         GeoIP.dat... done.
         GeoIPv6.dat... done.
         GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip... done.
        Downloading MaxMind GeoIP databases... done.
        Converting MaxMind GeoIP databases for pfBlockerNG.
         This may take a few minutes...
        Country code update Start [ 06/12/18 14:24:18 ]
         Converting MaxMind Country databases for pfBlockerNG.
         Processing ISO IPv4 Continent/Country Data
         Processing ISO IPv6 Continent/Country Data [ 06/12/18 14:24:49 ]
        Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files...
         Creating pfBlockerNG Continent XML files
         IPv4 Africa			 [ 06/12/18 14:24:58 ]
         IPv6 Africa			
         IPv4 Antarctica		
         IPv6 Antarctica		
         IPv4 Asia			
         IPv6 Asia			 [ 06/12/18 14:25:02 ]
         IPv4 Europe			
        Message from lua52-5.2.4:
        
        ===>   NOTICE:
        
        The lua52 port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
        more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
        the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:
        
        https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla
        
        More information about port maintainership is available at:
        
        https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html#maintain-port
        Message from GeoIP-1.6.11:
        
        GeoIP does not ship with the actual data files. You must download
        them yourself! Please run:
        # /usr/local/bin/geoipupdate.sh
        >>> Cleaning up cache... done.
        Success
        

        0_1528828031148_pfblockernotworkyworky.PNG

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        • M
          MeeleIkon @RonpfS
          last edited by

          @ronpfs said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:

          @meeleikon said in pfBlockerNG not showing in menus, tried reinstalling:

          pkg_edit.php

          The pfblockerNG url is https://pfsense.localdomain/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_general.php

          0_1528828915728_404pfblockng.PNG

          ☹

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          • RonpfSR
            RonpfS
            last edited by

            Check your config.xml, maybe something is breaking the installation.

            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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            • M
              MeeleIkon
              last edited by

              I hope I sanitized this properly.... But no, nothing jumps out on the config.xml

              0_1528834778798_config-foo.xml

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              • RonpfSR
                RonpfS @MeeleIkon
                last edited by RonpfS

                @meeleikon You don't have a

                <installedpackages>
                

                section 🤔

                But you have some pfblockerNG cron jobs!
                So something is broken in your config.xml
                Can you install any package ? Like Cron or System_Patches ?

                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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                  MeeleIkon
                  last edited by MeeleIkon

                  All other packages work fine. Literally just pfblocker and on a few firewalls all different configs. Only similarity is cron and openvpn.

                  0_1528922513568_installedpackages-config-foo.xml

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                  • RonpfSR
                    RonpfS
                    last edited by RonpfS

                    Those packages were probably installed before pfblockerNG.

                    Do you have <installedpackages> sections on your other firewalls?

                    Now if you try to install a package you didn't have installed, does the installation proceed ?

                    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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                      MeeleIkon
                      last edited by

                      I was just able to install system patches and I can see it's shortcut under system and it's page opens.

                      My home firewall was also having an issue, I may try a reload and install pfblocker before cron and see what that does.

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                      • RonpfSR
                        RonpfS
                        last edited by

                        Maybe inspect Diagnostics / Backup & Restore / Config History to see what happened in the past with the config.

                        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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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Just so you know I had cron installed and am using it before I installed the pfblocker package.

                          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                          SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

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                          • BBcan177B
                            BBcan177 Moderator
                            last edited by BBcan177

                            Run the following command:

                            grep -A30 "<menu" /conf/config.xml
                            

                            And check to see if there is an empty <menu></menu> tag... I have seen this with another user, but am not sure if its a pfSense bug or a pfBlockerNG bug?

                            If there is an empty tag, you can edit /conf/config.xml and remove that empty tag. If you do that from pfSense > Edit File, that will reload the config after you press save and hopefully that fixes it.

                            "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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