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Problem with DNSBL and Plex

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    DaReaLDeviL
    last edited by Apr 8, 2018, 6:58 AM

    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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    VM PFSense 2.4.3 (amd64) on Dell PowerEdge T410
    Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz 2 CPUs: 4GB Ram: 60GB Disk
    ISP (MNet) 1xModem (Vigor 130) 1xWan, 3xLan (PFSense)

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      DaReaLDeviL
      last edited by Apr 8, 2018, 7:24 AM

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

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      VM PFSense 2.4.3 (amd64) on Dell PowerEdge T410
      Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz 2 CPUs: 4GB Ram: 60GB Disk
      ISP (MNet) 1xModem (Vigor 130) 1xWan, 3xLan (PFSense)

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        a-a-ron
        last edited by Apr 9, 2018, 9:55 PM

        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
          last edited by Apr 10, 2018, 4:37 AM

          Hello Aaron,

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

          VM PFSense 2.4.3 (amd64) on Dell PowerEdge T410
          Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz 2 CPUs: 4GB Ram: 60GB Disk
          ISP (MNet) 1xModem (Vigor 130) 1xWan, 3xLan (PFSense)

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            DaReaLDeviL
            last edited by Apr 10, 2018, 7:25 AM

            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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            VM PFSense 2.4.3 (amd64) on Dell PowerEdge T410
            Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz 2 CPUs: 4GB Ram: 60GB Disk
            ISP (MNet) 1xModem (Vigor 130) 1xWan, 3xLan (PFSense)

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              RonpfS
              last edited by Apr 10, 2018, 4:47 PM

              @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.

              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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