GUI display of aliases contents not updating?

t3rmin · Nov 13, 2008, 6:04 PM

1.2.1-RC2
built on Sun Nov 9 13:12:46 EST 2008

I've got an alias that includes lots of hosts. I noticed that when I change its contents, it seems to take effect, and when I go back in to edit it, the list is correct, but the GUI status display at http://aggregator:8080/firewall_aliases.php isn't updating with the new hosts.

sullrich · Nov 14, 2008, 1:04 AM

Not following you. Please show screenshots of the problem.

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 5:35 AM

One shot is what I get when I click edit for "IGNhosts", the other shot is what I get when I view aliases. The edits have been saved and applied. The config file reflects what the edit page shows, not what the view page shows. It's mismatched – two different lists.

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 5:53 AM

Is there something I could execute on the command line to see the actual running config? I wonder if the changes are being recorded, but not applied successfully? And the view aliases page pulls from the running config? Just a thought.

eri-- · Nov 14, 2008, 9:02 AM

Can this be just a browser cache issue!?

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 4:22 PM

I don't think so. I've hit shift-refresh. It shows up the same in IE, too.

sullrich · Nov 14, 2008, 6:01 PM

I wonder if it is some kind of caching issue. We did not change any of the code in the aliases section that I recall and this worked in 1.2?

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 6:06 PM

Not unless pfSense is caching it server-side somehow.

I see the same discrepancy viewing it with Google Chrome, Firefox, and IE. I've cleared the cache and done shift-refresh. Definitely not cached on the client side. I'm not using a caching proxy or anything either.

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 6:09 PM

Also I can edit the other aliases and it behaves exactly as expected. It's just the one alias that misbehaves. It is the one with the most entries, but it's only 12 long…

sullrich · Nov 14, 2008, 6:58 PM

I am still having trouble understanding the problem most likely due to you remarking the data out…. Please email me the unedited screenshots to sullrich@gmail.com ... Otherwise I have no idea what your talking about and it will not receive any further attention.

Perry · Nov 14, 2008, 8:24 PM

If I should guess it is that only 10 of the 12 networks are shown?

t3rmin if you do a mouse over the alias under rules you should see the 12 networks

t3rmin · Nov 14, 2008, 9:39 PM

Perry: Now that makes sense. And you're correct, they all do show up with a mouseover. It's just truncating the list for space considerations…? Can anyone confirm that?