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    • R
      robatwork
      last edited by

      I am using pfBlocker 2.1.4_16 on pfSense to block users going to social websites, via the IPv4 alias list/firewall rules. I do this with ASN definitions.

      This works great for Twitter and Facebook but for some reason doesn't block Ebay, LinkedIn ( or Paypal for that matter). For example here is my IPv4 setup:
      1.png

      In each alias I have the ASN's published on Hurricane https://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=ebay&commit=Search

      The ebay one looks like this:
      2.png

      So from the list above, 4 floating firewall rules are generated, and each shows traffic:

      3.png

      Twitter and Facebook can't be accessed which is as expected, but Ebay (both .com and .co.uk) and Linkedin are working ok.

      Any ideas what I can look at ? I've already tried blocking via the published list of IPs on Hurricane and this also is ineffective.

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      • NogBadTheBadN
        NogBadTheBad
        last edited by

        I'd try updating pfBlocker to pfBlockerNG-devel 2.2.5_22.

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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        • NogBadTheBadN
          NogBadTheBad
          last edited by NogBadTheBad

          Just tried it myself and got the same results.

          If you do a host or nslookup, I bet the IP address thats being returned isn't in the Ebay AS and as a result its not being blocked.

          Last login: Fri Apr 26 08:20:10 on console
          mac-pro:~ andy$ host www.ebay.co.uk
          www.ebay.co.uk is an alias for slot11847.ebay.com.edgekey.net.
          slot11847.ebay.com.edgekey.net is an alias for e11847.g.akamaiedge.net.
          e11847.g.akamaiedge.net has address 2.20.92.239
          mac-pro:~ andy$
          
          AS details for 2.20.92.239 :-
          
          route:          2.20.92.0/22
          descr:          Akamai Technologies
          origin:         AS16625
          mnt-by:         AKAM1-RIPE-MNT
          created:        2017-04-26T09:45:19Z
          last-modified:  2017-04-26T09:45:19Z
          source:         RIPE
          remarks:        ****************************
          remarks:        * THIS OBJECT IS MODIFIED
          remarks:        * Please note that all data that is generally regarded as personal
          remarks:        * data has been removed from this object.
          remarks:        * To view the original object, please query the RIPE Database at:
          remarks:        * http://www.ripe.net/whois
          remarks:        ****************************
          
          route:          2.20.92.0/22
          descr:          Akamai Technologies
          origin:         AS20940
          mnt-by:         AKAM1-RIPE-MNT
          created:        2017-04-26T09:45:19Z
          last-modified:  2017-04-26T09:45:19Z
          source:         RIPE
          remarks:        ****************************
          remarks:        * THIS OBJECT IS MODIFIED
          remarks:        * Please note that all data that is generally regarded as personal
          remarks:        * data has been removed from this object.
          remarks:        * To view the original object, please query the RIPE Database at:
          remarks:        * http://www.ripe.net/whois
          remarks:        ****************************
          
          route:      2.16.0.0/13
          descr:      REACH (Customer Route)
          tech-c:     RRNOC1-REACH
          origin:     AS34164
          notify:     irr@team.telstra.com
          mnt-by:     MAINT-REACH-NOC
          remarks:    This auto-generated route object was created
          remarks:    for a REACH customer route
          remarks:    
          remarks:    This route object was created because
          remarks:    some REACH peers filter based on these objects
          remarks:    and this route may be rejected
          remarks:    if this object is not created.
          remarks:    
          remarks:    Please contact irr@team.telstra.com if you have any
          remarks:    questions regarding this object.
          source:     REACH
          changed:    irr@team.telstra.com 20170411
          
          
          Friday, 26 April 2019 at 10:42:58 British Summer Time
          

          Andy

          1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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          • R
            robatwork
            last edited by

            Thanks NBtB.

            My nslookup shows 6 results
            66.135.209.52
            66.211.181.123
            66.211.160.86
            66.135.216.190
            66.211.185.25
            66.211.162.12

            The first one for starters isn't on the ASN lists.
            Short of trial & error putting IPs into another blocking list, I'm not sure what I can do about this - are the companies themselves responsible for keeping the ASN up to date?

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            • NogBadTheBadN
              NogBadTheBad
              last edited by NogBadTheBad

              They are hosting their services with another provider that's the issue.

              You could try using the DNSBL TLD blacklist, that might work.

              Last login: Fri Apr 26 10:49:18 on ttys000
              mac-pro:~ andy$ host www.ebay.co.uk
              www.ebay.co.uk has address 172.16.255.2
              mac-pro:~ andy$ host www.ebay.com
              www.ebay.com has address 172.16.255.2
              mac-pro:~ andy$
              

              Screenshot 2019-04-26 at 13.10.30.png

              Screenshot 2019-04-26 at 13.11.04.png

              Andy

              1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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              • R
                robatwork
                last edited by

                Hi,
                If I understand it correctly, the DNSBL just redirects all DNS requests to the pfsense box - this just has DNS Forwarder (not DNS resolver) enabled for reasons nothing to do with this issue. And anything defined in the DNSBL goes to /dev/null?

                So it's not firewalling it at all, just preventing a DNS lookup.

                Is that how it works?

                (I did try this earlier and got nowhere, am running DNS and a domain internally on windows servers so thought this may not work anyway)

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                • NogBadTheBadN
                  NogBadTheBad
                  last edited by

                  @NogBadTheBad said in pfBlockerNG ipv4 not blocking ebay but is blocking twitter:

                  Yup it relies on DNS pointing to your pfSense box and returns a local IP address :(

                  Andy

                  1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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