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    Troubleshoot XMLRPC Sync pfBlockerNG 3.0

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      paddyboyfloyd
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      I've got about 10 pfSense boxes that I manage and I'm running pfBlocker on all. Box A is the master and I sync the configuration to the 9 other boxes. The 9 boxes are all configured basically the same, but 1 of the 9 is failing to sync the pfBlockerNG configuration. The only error I'm seeing in the pfblockerNG log is

      Sync with [ https://192.168.5.1:443 ] ... Failed!

      I get the following alert in the master pfSense:
      A communications error occurred while attempting to call XMLRPC method merge_installedpackages_section: @ 2021-05-05 16:45:07

      No indication of error or anything on the child pfSense. I've reentered the credentials three times, so I don't believe that it's a simple authnetication failure.

      I see the traffic being passed over my OpenVPN interface on the child pfSense, but it's not syncing the configuration.

      I'm clueless as to where I could look next to further troubleshoot this?

      Thanks!

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        RonpfS @paddyboyfloyd
        last edited by RonpfS

        @paddyboyfloyd Are all boxes running the same pfSense version ?
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        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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          paddyboyfloyd @RonpfS
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          @ronpfs The Master is running 2.5.1 and all the child boxes were running 2.4.5. I upgraded the child pfsense that's failing to the same version as the master, but I'm still getting the

          /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php: New alert found: A communications error occurred while attempting to call XMLRPC method merge_installedpackages_section:

          error when I force a reload on the master.

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