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    • NollipfSenseN
      NollipfSense @mcury
      last edited by

      @mcury So, are you saying the browser reacts first before it gets to pfBlockerNG? That seems to make sense!

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        mcury Rebel Alliance
        last edited by

        There is a certificate when the connection goes through https.
        The site you are calling in your browser is facebook.com, your browser is expecting to receive a response from facebook.com
        The certificate presented by the website, should contain the same name you called, in this case, facebook.com.

        Pfblocker is trying to present you a block page, that doesn't is facebook, so your browser cuts the connection.

        ps: sorry for my english

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        • NogBadTheBadN
          NogBadTheBad
          last edited by NogBadTheBad

          Basically you need to trust the pfBlocker self signed cert.

          http:-

          Screenshot 2020-01-17 at 16.01.34.png

          https:-

          Screenshot 2020-01-17 at 16.01.53.png

          Notice the padlock ?

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          Andy

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            mcury Rebel Alliance
            last edited by

            I don't think that will help either, see, the pfblocker certificate doesn't contain the facebook.com as a valid dns name.

            Check the facebook certificate for the part: DNS alternative names

            dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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            • NogBadTheBadN
              NogBadTheBad @mcury
              last edited by NogBadTheBad

              @mcury

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              Andy

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                mcury Rebel Alliance
                last edited by

                So, it worked with safari, how about firefox, or chrome?

                dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                • NogBadTheBadN
                  NogBadTheBad @mcury
                  last edited by NogBadTheBad

                  @mcury

                  Don't they both do DNS over HTTPS, so they'd bypass pfBlocker ?

                  Andy

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

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                    mcury Rebel Alliance
                    last edited by

                    You can disable that behavior

                    dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                    • NogBadTheBadN
                      NogBadTheBad @mcury
                      last edited by

                      @mcury

                      If you have firefox or chrome installed 😉

                      Andy

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                        mcury Rebel Alliance @NogBadTheBad
                        last edited by

                        @NogBadTheBad yeah :) only in that case.

                        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                        • NollipfSenseN
                          NollipfSense @NogBadTheBad
                          last edited by

                          @NogBadTheBad said in Block Facebook.com:

                          @mcury

                          Don't they both do DNS over HTTP, so they'd bypass pfBlocker ?

                          @mcury said in Block Facebook.com:

                          You can disable that behavior

                          Yes, I have disabled the behavior in Firefox and I mostly use Firefox and sometimes Safari. However, not in all cases I get "site had been blocked by network admin" sometimes I get a blank page...so; I just edit CN-DNSBL to trust it in Firefox.

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                            mcury Rebel Alliance @NollipfSense
                            last edited by

                            @NollipfSense

                            My previous tests with firefox didn't work.
                            My best guess is that firefox was trying to compare the fqdn called with the server CN and/or dns alternatives.
                            Remember, I'm not a specialist, and I could be wrong, so don't take everything I said as a last word.

                            I was facing a lot of issues to get my LE certificate to work, and to get that, I had to add in my certificate, all my subdomains as alternative names.

                            If Firefox is working today, with dnsblocker webpage for https, it's good to know, maybe I'll try it later :)

                            dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                            • NollipfSenseN
                              NollipfSense @mcury
                              last edited by

                              @mcury Yes, it's working with Firefox...

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                              pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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                                mcury Rebel Alliance @NollipfSense
                                last edited by

                                @NollipfSense I'll for sure try to import the DNSBL cert to my browser later in the day.
                                My dns over https is also disabled :)

                                dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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