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    Not seeing IP blocks in Alerts area of reports tab. DNSBL shows up properly.

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    • NogBadTheBadN
      NogBadTheBad
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      Are there any ip addresses in the PRI3 tables ?

      Diagnostics -> Tables

      Andy

      1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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        themadsalvi @NogBadTheBad
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        @NogBadTheBad It is showing 1408 records ( IP's)
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        All of the other lists are populated as well. Some with as many as 50,000 records

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        • RonpfSR
          RonpfS @themadsalvi
          last edited by RonpfS

          @themadsalvi
          Try restarting the pfb_filter from Status / Services tab.

          Check the log files in tab Firewall / pfBlockerNGLog /Browser, does ip_block.log is updated?

          Do you see any blocks in tab Status / System Logs / Firewall / Normal View?

          Try to ping some of the IPs in the table (Diagnostics/ Ping).

          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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            themadsalvi @RonpfS
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            @RonpfS

            1. restarted, and nothing changed in the alert tab

            2. the log file ip_block.log is just showing the blocks from march 26th

            3.no blocks at all (empty) for normal, or any other view.

            1. Cannot ping any of the iPs on the lists. Tried about 5 with no luck. It will not show them as blocked on any logs, though.
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            • RonpfSR
              RonpfS
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              Well check the pfblockerNG logs to see if something break.
              Check the system logs to see if they are recent

              ls -al /var/log
              

              Check the FW Rules
              Check to see if pfblockerNG is enabled etc.
              What happened on march 26 ?

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              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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                themadsalvi @RonpfS
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                @RonpfS Firewall rules are the auto configured ones that PFblocker creates when you tell it if you want it in floating rules or not. I am not seeing any errors in the logs. March 26th a blackout happened, which ended up corrupting the PFsense install, and I had to redo it.

                No errors in the log, except that it failed to download one list. PFblockerNG is enabled, as the DNSBL are working fine, and have not had the same issue. I have not been able to SSH into my pfsense to check the log date.

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                • RonpfSR
                  RonpfS @themadsalvi
                  last edited by

                  @themadsalvi said in Not seeing IP blocks in Alerts area of reports tab. DNSBL shows up properly.:

                  I have not been able to SSH into my pfsense to check the log date.

                  You can use the Diagnostics / Command Prompt tab.

                  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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                    themadsalvi @RonpfS
                    last edited by

                    @RonpfS
                    got it

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                    • RonpfSR
                      RonpfS @themadsalvi
                      last edited by

                      @themadsalvi said in Not seeing IP blocks in Alerts area of reports tab. DNSBL shows up properly.:

                      March 26th a blackout happened, which ended up corrupting the PFsense install, and I had to redo it.

                      Well something went wrong then. How did you redo it ? With a fresh install ?

                      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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                      • RonpfSR
                        RonpfS
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                        Some log files are not updating, you may copy them if you "need" them, then reset the log file from the Status / System Logs / Settings tab

                        I would run a fsck from the Shell prompt or even better, redo a Fresh install then recover 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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                          themadsalvi @RonpfS
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                          @RonpfS Re-installed the whole thing again and went back to known working configurations, even ones before the march 26th issue, and there are still no IP blocks showing up in the Report tab, nor the firewall logs. Maybe somehow something is getting borked in the install? I am installing through USB with "guided install"

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                          • RonpfSR
                            RonpfS @themadsalvi
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                            @themadsalvi Did you format the partition ? There should not be any file from the older installation after a Fresh install before restoring the config.

                            Restoring the config also doesn't change /var/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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                              themadsalvi @RonpfS
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                              @RonpfS yes, I also had it use the whole drive, just in case(to make sure nothing would interfere). I even used a different drive(that never had pfsense installed) to take out the chance of the hard drive being the issue as well.

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                              • RonpfSR
                                RonpfS @themadsalvi
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                                @themadsalvi So after the install, before restoring the config, you have no log files updating ? Even after a reboot ?

                                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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                                  themadsalvi @RonpfS
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                                  @RonpfS The log files have not updated since the fresh install was finished yesterday. very strange.
                                  c2ad5b41-0910-422e-8fc1-daf1495c8da9-image.png

                                  My only guess is that something in the config that is being restored is causing this to happen. Don't know how this could actually occur though, as mentioned before, I went with configs from 2018 where Pfblocker was actually blocking IP's.

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                                  • RonpfSR
                                    RonpfS
                                    last edited by

                                    Start over, check that logging occurs, then redo the config from scratch instead of restoring a config. Keep monitoring logging until you identify the culprit.

                                    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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                                      themadsalvi @RonpfS
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                                      @RonpfS looks like that is indeed my only option here. I will have to wait until I can make a window for re-do/update in my environment.

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                                      • RonpfSR
                                        RonpfS @themadsalvi
                                        last edited by

                                        @themadsalvi You could investigate your config.xml to check if something obvious might cause your problems.

                                        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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                                        • RonpfSR
                                          RonpfS @themadsalvi
                                          last edited by

                                          @themadsalvi here is what I have on my side :

                                          [2.4.4-RELEASE][2019-05-06 18:51:20][admin@pfsense.local]/var/log: ls -altr
                                          total 4195
                                          drwx------   2 www      www             2 Oct  3  2018 lighttpd
                                          -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel      161664 Dec  8 19:40 bsdinstall_log
                                          drwxr-xr-x   2 root     wheel           2 Dec  8 19:42 ntp
                                          -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel           0 Dec  8 19:46 lastlog
                                          drwx------   3 root     wheel           4 Dec  8 19:51 suricata
                                          drwxr-xr-x  26 root     wheel          26 Dec 12 07:42 ..
                                          drwxr-xr-x   7 root     wheel          30 Dec 12 07:42 .
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 vpn.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 poes.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 l2tps.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 openvpn.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 portalauth.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 ipsec.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 ppp.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 relayd.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 wireless.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Dec 20 21:14 routing.log
                                          drwxr-xr-x   2 root     wheel           4 Feb 25 17:03 nginx
                                          -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel       11566 Feb 26 12:40 dmesg.boot
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel        9252 Feb 26 12:40 userlog
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 Mar 29 12:40 ntpd.log
                                          -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel         394 May  6 17:45 utx.lastlogin
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel       11801 May  6 17:45 utx.log
                                          drwxr-xr-x   2 unbound  unbound        12 May  6 18:19 pfblockerng
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:20 system.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:20 dhcpd.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:20 resolver.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:20 gateways.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:28 nginx.log
                                          -rw-------   1 root     wheel    10240000 May  6 18:51 filter.log
                                          
                                          

                                          So some files are updated, some are dated from the last install.

                                          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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                                            greyv
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                                            I'm new to using pfblocker and just had the same issue. I noticed you are using squid as i am also. pfblocker will not filter ip addresses while squid is enabled. I tested enabling and disabling it. I'm not sure what the better option is because i cant get pfblocker to filter https. so currently i'm just using pfblocker to filter dnsbl

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