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    Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update

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    • chudakC
      chudak @RonpfS
      last edited by

      @ronpfs

      How do you "change strategy from Blocking the world to Allowing some countries" ?

      Thx

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      • GerardoMdPG
        GerardoMdP @chudak
        last edited by

        @chudak Maybe... "Allowing the world to blocking some countries". Its more dificult to block all and let a few be allowed than allow (almost) everything and block specific traffic imo.

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        • chudakC
          chudak @GerardoMdP
          last edited by

          @gerardomdp said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

          @chudak Maybe... "Allowing the world to blocking some countries". Its more dificult to block all and let a few be allowed than allow (almost) everything and block specific traffic imo.

          I agree, it was a bit confused by this :)

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          • RonpfSR
            RonpfS @chudak
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            @chudak said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

            verified pfB_Whitelist_v4 rule is on top of the FW rules

            What does your FW Rules look like ? Did you click the "Quick" box?
            You can use the Report tab "+" to create a Whitelist group and see how it's configured.

            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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            • chudakC
              chudak @RonpfS
              last edited by

              @ronpfs said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

              @chudak said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

              verified pfB_Whitelist_v4 rule is on top of the FW rules

              What does your FW Rules look like ? Did you click the "Quick" box?
              You can use the Report tab "+" to create a Whitelist group and see how it's configured.

              The rule looks like:

              fa6c656c-75bf-4945-9096-f71bc68d2363-image.png

              Little confused by White_List_ports, but I never modified it manually

              3f375a77-4472-487a-86ef-0b8550c8fa11-image.png

              Port 80, don't know why.

              Quick "Apply the action immediately on match." checked

              Anything wrong ?

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              • chudakC
                chudak @chudak
                last edited by chudak

                Something is really fishy.

                Either my North America setup all of the sudden got messed or pbBNG messed the GeoIP list or the MaxMind GeoIP list is bad.

                I did some testing pinging my router from different locations using NordVPN:

                SF CA 172.58.94.230 blocked by pfB_NAmerica_v4 (PR_v4 172.58.88.0/21) (no VPN)
                
                SF CA 192.145.118.74 blocked by pfB_NAmerica_v4 (DE_rep_v4 192.145.116.0/22)
                
                NY NY 185.187.243.230 blocked by pfB_Top_v4 (DE_rep_v4 185.187.243.0/24)
                
                Dallas 107.158.15.75 passed 
                
                Atlanta 92.119.17.244 blocked by pfB_Top_v4 (GB_rep_v4 92.119.16.0/22)
                

                Why CA is PR, DE, NY -- DE, Atlanta -- GB ???
                Kill me I don't know.

                To make it even more spicy - I asked a couple of fiends to ping me from different phones, located not in SF, and they were successful from AT&T and T-Mobile (!!!)

                Anybody has a hypothesis ?

                @BBcan177

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                • RonpfSR
                  RonpfS @chudak
                  last edited by RonpfS

                  @chudak Your FW Rules is only for TCP/IP, you need FW Rules to allow ICMP if you wanna use Ping.

                  You can search de GeoIP .txt files for the Networks that puzzle you.

                  There are probably good guides or posts on how to configure your pfSense to achieve your goals.

                  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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                  • chudakC
                    chudak @RonpfS
                    last edited by

                    @ronpfs said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

                    @chudak Your FW Rules is only for TCP/IP, you need FW Rules to allow ICMP if you wanna use Ping.

                    Of cause, I have FW rule to allow ICMP, otherwise I won't be able to ping at all !

                    You can search de GeoIP .txt files for the Networks that puzzle you.

                    There are probably good guides or posts on how to configure your pfSense to achieve your goals.

                    You seem to be suggesting a mis-configuration, which is possible. But I've provided a detailed tests and settings, that can be repeated and/or confirmed and/or proofed wrong.

                    What exactly do you suspect wrong with the settings based on what's shown ?

                    One note - the same pfBNG configuration has been in use with no issues for long time.

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                    • chudakC
                      chudak @chudak
                      last edited by

                      @chudak said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

                      @ronpfs said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

                      @chudak said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

                      What does GeoIP PR mean?

                      Porto Rico

                      grep "172.58.88." /usr/local/share/GeoIP/cc/*.txt
                      
                      /usr/local/share/GeoIP/cc/North_America_v4.txt:172.58.88.0/21
                      /usr/local/share/GeoIP/cc/North_America_v4.txt:172.58.88.0/21
                      /usr/local/share/GeoIP/cc/PR_v4.txt:172.58.88.0/21
                      /usr/local/share/GeoIP/cc/US_rep_v4.txt:172.58.88.0/21
                      
                      
                      

                      Why Porto Rico if I am I San Francisco CA ?!

                      I am still straggling with this ....

                      Do you have an explanation why in your grep 172.58.88.0/21 i slisted in 4 GeoIP lists North_America, PR_v4, US_rep?

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                      • RonpfSR
                        RonpfS @chudak
                        last edited by

                        @chudak
                        From any GeoIP tab : Click here for IMPORTANT info --> What's new in GeoIP2

                        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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                        • chudakC
                          chudak @RonpfS
                          last edited by

                          @ronpfs said in Problem after pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 update:

                          @chudak
                          From any GeoIP tab : Click here for IMPORTANT info --> What's new in GeoIP2

                          Cool, so far I don't see what's wrong. Do you ?

                          I had a chat with MaxMind support and one thing jumped at me "it looks like the "registered country" for that IP address range is Germany. I'm wondering if pfSense is looking at that instead of the "country""

                          That's interesting

                          It'd be good to have a NordVPN and GeoIP user here to confirm this....

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