pfBlockerNG-devel feedback

BBcan177

Its been awhile since pfBlockerNG-devel was released. Just checking to see if anyone had any issues that they would like to report. Working on trying to get it released.

Devel notes here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/8lnugz/pfblockerng_devel_version_released/

For those still on the fence, please try to install pfBlockerNG-devel as there haven't been many reported issues and there are a lot of features/fixes in devel that users should be migrating towards.

The only open issue so far is the following SQLite3 issue. I can't get a handle yet on why its only affecting some users and not all others. There is some issue with the journaling mode. There is a quick fix available if you hit that.

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/130361/pfblockerng-devel-2-1-2/26

Thanks!

JasonAU

Zero issues for me running it on my home prod environment and loving the new features, I think from a code/stability POV I'm very happy with it.

The only thing I can think of is we need a good KB/reference material on how to do some things with it, I know we have these forums but it can be hard to find your problem or questions sometimes, personally I learn best from Youtube videos

Grimson

Works fine, the only issue so far is a cosmetic issue where the links to the EasyList feeds are shown wrong (it downloads the correct feeds, so it's only the UI), some examples:

dma_pf

@jasonau said in pfBlockerNG-devel feedback:

Zero issues for me running it on my home prod environment and loving the new features, I think from a code/stability POV I'm very happy with it.

The only thing I can think of is we need a good KB/reference material on how to do some things with it, I know we have these forums but it can be hard to find your problem or questions sometimes, personally I learn best from Youtube videos

I concur with Jason's comments. Just upgraded from pfBlockerNG 2.1.2_3 to pfBlockerNG-devel 2.2.1 on a pfSense 2.4.3 Release -P1 (amd64) box with no issues. I'm running multiple openvpn connections and a site-to-site tunnel and everything worked smoothly right after the upgrade.

I would also like some more concise reference material on how it all works. I know that we have this forum and I have learned a lot from it. But there is certainly a steep learning curve.

konawolv

I have been very satisfied with pfBlockerNG-devel. The only issues i had were cert issues with downloading feed updates which caused my cron jobs to act funny. However, i dug around some posts and found your recommendation to change those feeds to "FLEX" and that seemed to have fixed the problem.

Otherwise, its been great. Ads ~~dont get blocked~~ get blocked on androids and on the ipad, but they still play. I think this has something to do with the way that apps distribute ads on those platforms.

The usability of devel has been great. Also recently updated to 2.2.5_9 with no issues that i have seen.

bartkowski

Overall very happy, no issues that I could see.

But I just got this error while looking at log files.

PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_log.php, Line: 192, Message: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 129 bytes) @ 2018-08-21 11:23:59

BBcan177

@grimson that was fixed early on. You must have been an early tester and created those easylist entries with the old code. You could try a "save" in the Easylist Tab to see if that repairs those entries.

BBcan177

@bartkowski that could happen if you attempt to view a very large log file and it exhausted the browser/php memory trying to load that log file.

Grimson

@bbcan177 said in pfBlockerNG-devel feedback:

@grimson that was fixed early on. You must have been an early tester and created those easylist entries with the old code. You could try a "save" in the Easylist Tab to see if that repairs those entries.

No, a save does mix them up differently but they still don't match.

RonpfS

@bartkowski You could try to increase the "memory_limit" settings in /etc/inc/config.inc. This change will be lost when you upgrade pfsense as it installs the defaut config.inc.

// Set memory limit to 512M on amd64.
if ($ARCH == "amd64") {
	ini_set("memory_limit", "512M");
} else {
	ini_set("memory_limit", "128M");
}

You can also the limit the size of pfblocker log files in pfBlockerNG / General Tab / Log Settings .

bartkowski

@ronpfs I'm running the SG-2440 with stock RAM. I'll give this a try.

Edit: My config.inc file shows the same memory limits.

Grimson

Ok, I did a fresh install (removed previous package and cleaned out any remaining files in /tmp) of pfBlockerNG-devel version 2.2.5_10 on pfSense 2.4.3p1.

On the first visit of the EasyList feeds page everything is fine. Then I enabled EasyList, EasyPrivacy and Easylist German with all of their content, set Action to Unbound and saved the settings. Now the feed URLs in the UI are mixed up again. I'm using Firefox 61.0.2 but I see the same in IE. They do show fine in the config.xml, so I guess something gets mixed up when reading/interpreting the config for the UI:

0_1535117945591_easylist_config.txt

BBcan177

@grimson

I'm working on a patch for this... I will shoot you a PM if you don't mind testing that when its completed?

Grimson

@bbcan177 said in pfBlockerNG-devel feedback:

@grimson

I'm working on a patch for this... I will shoot you a PM if you don't mind testing that when its completed?

Happy to help, I have the System_Patches package installed so providing a patch is probably the easiest way to test the fix.

BBcan177

@grimson said in pfBlockerNG-devel feedback:

Happy to help, I have the System_Patches package installed so providing a patch is probably the easiest way to test the fix.

@Grimson, its just as easy to download the two patched files below. Let me know how it goes.

fetch -o /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/FreeBSD-ports/patch-1/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-devel/files/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc"

fetch -o /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_category_edit.php "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBcan177/FreeBSD-ports/patch-1/net/pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-devel/files/usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng_category_edit.php"

Grimson

Looks good, I couldn't reproduce the issue anymore. Thanks.

BBcan177

@grimson said in pfBlockerNG-devel feedback:

Looks good, I couldn't reproduce the issue anymore. Thanks

Great. Thanks for testing. There are a bunch of changes in the next pull request:

https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/559

lordbob75

I did not notice for a while, but it looks like ever since I upgraded to this version the DNSBL has been crashing and restarting every minute, along with the service watchdog.

I've also got the out of sync error, but I've force reloaded a bunch of times and the log just says DNSBL is out of sync. Not sure what to look for in it.

RonpfS

There is no need to place DNSBL under the System Watchdog.

You need to post the log of a Force Reload All if you want to get help.

One thing that can generate Out of Sync warnings is if you have Header/Label that are not unique.

lordbob75

@ronpfs ah, well then that should fix that part.

I've attached the log to this post.
0_1535239826092_pfblockerng.zip