Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.x(Now with scripts amd64) v1.3

Gertjan

You'll be needing this on your WAN interface (see arrow) :

Instead of the '1194' port you'll be using '9987' - protocol is UDP.

kevev

Wow! It has been a long time since I updated this post. I forgot to enable email notifications.

I have created an updated version with all of the fixes. Thank You everyone for keeping this thread alive.

Question: Do you all want me to update this tread, or just create a new thread?

kevev

I went ahead and posted v.1.3 and updated the first post. Enjoy! :)

iced98lx

I think updating the current one is the right choice.. :)

iced98lx

Teamspeak's exploding license servers are a bummer but the upgrade to 3.11.0 was nice and smooth!

Pixel_47

My Team Speak 3 server has stopped working today, how do I upgrade without losing the old server settings?

Gertjan

@Pixel_47 said in Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.x(Now with scripts amd64) v1.3:

My Team Speak 3 server has stopped working today, how do I upgrade without losing the old server settings?

What you really mean is : when will this package pfSense be upgraded ?
Can be tomorrow. It could never happen ...
You know, the game player of yesterday probably does something else today.

So, nothing changed.
Update the old fashioned way. As they, the TS3 authors do it.
I'm pretty sure the entire "teamspeak server" directory respect the same directly structure as the original setup [ edit : I had a look : it's true ]

Download the file from https://teamspeak.com/en/downloads/#server (take the FreeBSD 64 bit version), decompress it, and stash the files on the right place on your pfSense.
To be sure, make a backup copy of the ini and other settings file already present.
And go read the "release notes".

A said, nothings changed.

Btw : really ? Running TS3 on a firewall ?

edit : My Free licensed TS3 is still running. Yours has a problem ?

edit again :
My 'ts' in installed here :
/usr/local/teamspeak/

I entered my server (Debian 8.x - dedicated server) - I entered using SSH, being root
Here we go :

cd /usr/local/teamspeak/
ls -al
rm teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.10.2.tar.bz2
wget https://files.teamspeak-services.com/releases/server/3.12.1/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.12.1.tar.bz2
service ts3maria stop
 tar jxvf teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.12.1.tar.bz2
rm /var/log/teamspeak/*
service ts3maria.sh start

Line :

went to my ts directory
looked what was there : 2 bz2 files : the current running 3.11.0 and an older, spare backup version 3.10.2
I removed de 3.10.2 version (always keep a, backup version - who says the new one is the better one ?)
4 I downloaded the 3.12.0 - the link is copied from their down page (the linux 64bit version).
Smart move : I stopped the running TS.
Unpacked it - everything will get (over) written into /usr/local/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/
While the service is stopped, and I have no incidents to debug to check that I recall, I wipe the - now ancient - log files in /var§log/teamspeak/ (otherwise they keep up eating space as TS3 does NOT support log rotation which is - IMHO - an extremely dangerous thing ) [ Note to myself : have to read the Release notes ^^ ]
I fell lucky - and because this works well for the last several years now : I start TS. No checking , no log tailing

A quick test using the my TS client shows me :

So version 3.12.1 seems to be up and running - I can connect. I've no mic neither speakers so can't be sure for 100 %, but I'm confident.

Also : the main " _0 " log files confirms all is well :

2020-07-01 09:06:31.185813|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   |TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.12.1 (2020-03-27 10:38:47)
2020-07-01 09:06:31.185909|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   |SystemInformation: Linux 4.16.16-local-1 #1 SMP Wed Jun 20 14:23:01 CEST 2018 x86_64 Binary: 64bit
2020-07-01 09:06:31.186505|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   |dbPlugin name:    MariaDB plugin, version 3, (c)TeamSpeak Systems GmbH
2020-07-01 09:06:31.186537|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   |dbPlugin version: 2
2020-07-01 09:06:31.585528|INFO    |SQL           |   |database updated successfully to revision: 33
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739392|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739439|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-Profit License
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739467|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 2020
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739487|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 2020
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739506|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2020-07-01 09:06:31.739524|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512
2020-07-01 09:06:32.772457|INFO    |              |   |Puzzle precompute time: 754
2020-07-01 09:06:32.772732|INFO    |FileManager   |   |listening on 51.196.43.182:30033, [2001:41d0:2:927b::10]:30033
2020-07-01 09:06:33.043898|INFO    |Query         |   |listening for query on 0.0.0.0:10011, [2001:41d0:2:927b::10]:10011
2020-07-01 09:06:33.050172|INFO    |Query         |   |listening for ssh query on 0.0.0.0:10044, [::]:10044
2020-07-01 09:06:33.050253|INFO    |CIDRManager   |   |updated query_ip_blacklist ips: 87.xxx.192.236/32, 93.186.201.147/32, 
2020-07-01 09:06:33.050306|INFO    |CIDRManager   |   |updated query_ip_whitelist ips: 127.0.0.1/32, 94.23.235.222/32,

JeGr

@Gertjan said in Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.x(Now with scripts amd64) v1.3:

Btw : really ? Running TS3 on a firewall ?

Don't get it, too, why everything has to run on the "security" device. Yeah yeah power consumption, ease of use, yada yada, may all be valid points but then why using pfSense in the first place as it's known, that it's a security appliance/distribution that hardly runs an all-in-one-solution. With devices like a Raspi 4 now even whopping 8GB RAM and still having minimal power usage, I simply don't get the drill to run everything on one device. Especially as running other things on sth. like a Raspberry makes it so much easier and nicer to compartmentalize and secure.

Gertjan

@JeGr : Well, as you said, security. Remove that word, and all is fine ;)

tong

Some of the first couple of posts need to be updated but this still remains usable. Next update i do I'll type in the updated info.

@Gertjan how did you get a NPL? been trying forever but they make the requirements so...., hell at this point I'd be happy if they pushed the free license to 64 people!

Gertjan

@tong said in Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.x(Now with scripts amd64) v1.3:

how did you get a NPL

It was some .... (to) many years ago. 512 users / 10 virtual servers.
There was a condition were : having an domain name pointing to IP - and that the domain name was related to what could you could name a "game site". I was 'admin' of a big WoW these days (still am actually) so it wasn't hard.

Pixel_47

Link to google drive is not working.

tong

@pixel_47 said in Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.x(Now with scripts amd64) v1.3:

Link to google drive is not working.

Don't know if I'm allowed to share it or not but here it is, if not I'll take it down:

This is a copy of the current one listed at the top.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d99V4SJHwfMMUbCZeMh3tx-FfxUNJ49f/view?usp=sharing

Pixel_47

@tong Thank you very much for the link.

kevev

@tong Thanks for sharing your link. Not sure what happened to my original upload. I have re-uploaded. Here is a new link to my copy:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-k0u99CjNLqbb4WM0llzXrnO49k2Q2q5/view?usp=sharing