pfBlockerNG - why is Luxembourg IP in pfB_NAmerica_v4?

Thanks for having a think about it. I really should get rid of those outbound geoip blocks. Blunt force weapon that solves nothing useful for me. Maybe block something outbound that is more targeted. ET Comp or one of the firehol lists as a canary...

Better end point security wouldn't hurt for me either. Need to not be so lazy ;)

Thanks again!

johnpoz

You sure those are AWS? I can not find those prefixes in there published IP blocks

https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

I see ones close.. But not any that those IPs fall into exactly.. Maybe missing??? So for example I see a

54.222.64.0/23 but I don't see anything that would cover 54.222.63

I think they are, could they be gstatic addresses? I do miss Pi-Hole, could answer the question in a second...

johnpoz

@jwj said in pfBlockerNG - why is Luxembourg IP in pfB_NAmerica_v4?:

54.222.63.5

That is this
Amazon EC2 BJS Prefix

So its not actual AWS ;)

dl.amazon.cn points to it for example..

Your not anywhere near china are you? Curious why you would be going there to be honest..

Wonder what it's after from that? Profile data? It's the problem with encrypting EVERYTHING. If it's not personally identifying why is it encrypted? Can't sniff to see what it is...

No, North Carolina. Used to live in the region. Hong Kong a long time ago, before there was Amazon. Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia more recently. Singapore until 2016 most recently.

johnpoz

Just looked in my dns logs, and yeah my IPAD is looking that up...

That 218 IP is
www.amazon.cn. 1833 IN A 54.222.60.218

Curious. Some jurisdictional thing? Maybe they have just F'd up their load balancing.

johnpoz

All comes down to how far you want to go down the tinfoil hat hole ;)

@johnpoz Come on now. This is a serious time, pandemic and all. There is no time for humor

I have no interest in chasing rabbits. :) Thanks man, be well!

Bob.Dig

@jwj said in pfBlockerNG - why is Luxembourg IP in pfB_NAmerica_v4?:

You will need to whitelist what you need to, Maxmind isn't going to fix their free offering.

Problem is, you can't mix them right? So for an alias-permit, there is no good solution to add some IPs to a geo-range or is there and if how? I guess you have to create your own URL-Alias somehow.

johnpoz

you can create your own and combine lists if you want.. i have this list for example

has some geo regions and then list of aws ips that are used to check plex is up, this changes now and then.. And then a list from status cake that is used to test if services up, etc.

Bob.Dig

@johnpoz So If I want do add some IPs my own, how would I do that, create or copy a text file to pfsense and make a "URL" or can I add some host aliases my own?

johnpoz

Scroll down. You can do full custom.

But sure you could use a file or url that loads the file..

Bob.Dig

@johnpoz Interesting, will try that. Thank you.

Bob.Dig

I had to "recreate" my geo-IP alias for that, because I was not able to combine the existing one with the custom IP. But it works!