Pfblocker not working as expected

[randombits]

I have now setup pfsense on a standalone mini-itx. What I've found is I have pi-hole running on a PI that pfsense points to in DHCP - DNS (It doesn't work in system/general setup settings?)
I've placed some of my pi-hole lists in pfblocker (IPV4 and DNSBL) and turned off pi-hole but the ad sites that are blocked with pi-hole don't get blocked with pfblocker.

What I'm trying to do is whitelist coinpot.co - which I've done but it's still blocked.
nslookup shows
C:\Users\pc>nslookup coinpot.co
Server: pfSense.localdomain
Address: 192.168.2.210

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: coinpot.co
Addresses: 2606:4700:10::6814:41bb
2606:4700:10::6814:42bb
104.20.65.187
104.20.66.187

and ping times out, but that because of Cloudflare ? I've flushed the DNS but still nothing...

Another thing I'm not sure what this is about ?

Assembling database... completed
Executing TLD
TLD analysis...xx
Debug: Missing TLD: local-data: "0.0.0 60 IN A 10.10.99.1"
xxxxxxxxx completed
** TLD Domain count exceeded. [ 250000 ] All subsequent Domains listed as-is **
Finalizing TLD... completed

Original Matches Removed Final

1309969 168500 -802657 2112626

Validating database... Skipped [ 08/19/19 16:40:41 ]
Reloading Unbound.... completed

[randombits]

I've now come to the conclusion Pfblocker is good at what it does however, finding what and how sites are blocked and then white listing those sites needs a lot more work. Reluctantly I think I will go back to Pi-hole just because of it's white listing.

[jdeloach]

@randombits said in Pfblocker not working as expected:

I've now come to the conclusion Pfblocker is good at what it does however, finding what and how sites are blocked and then white listing those sites needs a lot more work. Reluctantly I think I will go back to Pi-hole just because of it's white listing.

You don't say what version of pfBlocker_NG you're using but I would recommend that you give pfBlocker_NG devel a try if you're have problems.

[randombits]

Opps sorry,

It's pfBlockerNG version 2.1.4_17

[jdeloach]

@randombits said in Pfblocker not working as expected:

Opps sorry,

It's pfBlockerNG version 2.1.4_17

Then by all means give pfBlockerNG_dev a try. It is the latest version and lets you do whitelisting.

[randombits]

@jdeloach I will do, I've spent the last ~5 days fiddling with 2.1.4.17 trying to figure out just how to whitelist sites. I think one issue some sites use CDN's and that gets blocked leaving a site partly loaded.
I realise any blocking application needs to fine tuned to ones own use but PFB seems particularly diificult just the white list a few sites.

[randombits]

@jdeloach A very quick look at PFB dev and it appears a bit more 'friendly' with '+' to easily white list - I'll have a play!

[randombits]

Thanks @jdeloach for suggesting I tried the dev version it appears to work, although I feel a bit uneasy whitelisting a Cloudflare IP (not an issue with outbound of course )

I can now confirm Pfblocker dev whitelisting works - almost as good as Pi-hole