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    Snort - Blocked Hosts lost after upgrade/reboot

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    • chudakC
      chudak
      last edited by

      Not 100% sure about reboot but after upgrade Snort/Blocked Hosts list had been deleted.
      Is it a glitch or there is an option to persist it?

      Thx

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      • bmeeksB
        bmeeks
        last edited by

        No, the blocks are stored in a pf table called snort2c.  That table is created by the pfSense code at startup and maintained in RAM.  On a reboot, it is dumped and recreated fresh but empty.  Persisting blocks has not real benefit anyway.  If Snort blocked the traffic once, it will block it the next time it sees it.  So why persist across reboots and add all that complexity to the code?

        Bill

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