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    • DaReaLDeviL
      DaReaLDeviL last edited by

      Hello,

      I run into some problems with setting up blocking different countries for my open ports and allowed conections. The last thing I don't get always running is plex media server. It get sometimes conected but then drops out and I have to manual reastablish the conection. Then it works for a day and then it drops out.

      Please have a look at the screenshots. I'm not an expert but trie as good as I can. The amazon servers in europe are like

      eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
      eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
      eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com

      but they get blocked by pfB_NAmerica_v4, but I have the allowed rule on top of all? Please help me to see my mistake.





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      • DaReaLDeviL
        DaReaLDeviL last edited by

        I also tried this way and whitelisted the ips that get blocked and the get blocked right away




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        • Aaron M
          Aaron M last edited by

          These are what I added to the "IPv4 Custom_List" under my Plex rule…

          54.246.0.0/16 #eu-west-1, EC2
          34.240.0.0/13 #eu-west-1, EC2

          You can find all the amazon subnets here, I would only add what you need at the minimum.
          https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

          Now, that being said... don't block all countries, just allow the countries you want...  for instance, I only allow US connections to my media server, the above two rules are due to plex hosting on aws outside of the USA.

          Here is my rule for plex...
          https://imgur.com/a/NnLlD

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          • DaReaLDeviL
            DaReaLDeviL last edited by

            Hello Aaron,

            thank you for the replay and the screenshots. I will test this and I will report back, many thanks.

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            • DaReaLDeviL
              DaReaLDeviL last edited by

              So here we go, all my settings are now like you greatly suggested but:

              I'm looking in the wrong menu? I don't have the "ip4 source definition" like you?!

              And I also get only a conection if I set plex on a random port, not a sticky one. What are your settings here?




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              • RonpfS
                RonpfS last edited by

                @DaReaLDeviL:

                So here we go, all my settings are now like you greatly suggested but:

                I'm looking in the wrong menu? I don't have the "ip4 source definition" like you?!

                He is using development version of pfBlockerNG.

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