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    pfSense blocking addic7ed, but how ?

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    • chudakC
      chudak @johnpoz
      last edited by chudak

      @johnpoz said in pfSense blocking addic7ed, but how ?:

      And you get no answer.. from that last sniff.. So pfsense is NOT blocking anything..

      I agreed with that !

      The question after that was what is blocking ?

      I checked on a remote ubuntu box and it works fine. Could it be my ISP +/- upstream DNS servers ?

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      • KOMK
        KOM @chudak
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        @chudak I had a guy last week with this same problem. It turned out his IP address was blocked for too many bad logins. He had other IPs available and when he switched to another, the remote site responded and worked. Do you have a VPN you could try going there through?

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        • chudakC
          chudak @KOM
          last edited by

          @kom said in pfSense blocking addic7ed, but how ?:

          @chudak I had a guy last week with this same problem. It turned out his IP address was blocked for too many bad logins. He had other IPs available and when he switched to another, the remote site responded and worked. Do you have a VPN you could try going there through?

          That maybe a different issue.
          I can use a remote system (not on my net) and can login from it.
          Also in my case I can't even get to a login page...

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @chudak
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            What is upstream of your pfsense? Just your ISP? Could be connectivity issue with that site from your isp, ie peering. Or the site themselves might of blocked your IP, etc.

            DNS is not involved once you resolve the fqdn.. If you got the correct IP when you resolved, then dns is no longer in the picture.. I show that resolving to the same IP.

            And works just fine here as far as connectivity is connected, get redirect to 443 when hit it on 80 via a 301 and then index is downloaded

            user@NewUC:/tmp$ wget http://www.addic7ed.com/
            --2021-05-14 14:28:08--  http://www.addic7ed.com/
            Resolving www.addic7ed.com (www.addic7ed.com)... 46.105.102.174
            Connecting to www.addic7ed.com (www.addic7ed.com)|46.105.102.174|:80... connected.
            HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
            Location: https://www.addic7ed.com/ [following]
            --2021-05-14 14:28:08--  https://www.addic7ed.com/
            Connecting to www.addic7ed.com (www.addic7ed.com)|46.105.102.174|:443... connected.
            HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
            Length: unspecified [text/html]
            Saving to: ‘index.html’
            
            index.html                                         [  <=>                                                                                               ] 329.76K   968KB/s    in 0.3s    
            
            2021-05-14 14:28:10 (968 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [337672]
            
            user@NewUC:/tmp$ 
            
            

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            • chudakC
              chudak @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz

              I have Sonic fiber ISP
              Good point about DNS - withdrawn

              Dunno, flaky, we will see

              Thanks guys @johnpoz @KOM for walking me thru Packet Capture
              I don's use too often.

              Although this case maybe not had been a good example

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              • KOMK
                KOM @chudak
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                @chudak

                I can use a remote system (not on my net) and can login from it.

                Well, that would make sense if your WAN address is blocked. The remote system isn't blocked.

                Also in my case I can't even get to a login page...

                In the other guys' case, they were blocking his IP at the external firewall so he didn't get a login page either.

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                • chudakC
                  chudak @KOM
                  last edited by chudak

                  @kom said in pfSense blocking addic7ed, but how ?:

                  @chudak

                  I can use a remote system (not on my net) and can login from it.

                  Well, that would make sense if your WAN address is blocked. The remote system isn't blocked.

                  Also in my case I can't even get to a login page...

                  In the other guys' case, they were blocking his IP at the external firewall so he didn't get a login page either.

                  That's interesting...
                  Maybe then it's my case.

                  Do you know by chance how many say bad requests did it take to get it blocked ? and how long was it blocked ?

                  https://www.addic7ed.com/downloadexceeded.php?why=2&ip=65.23.243.52

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM @chudak
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                    @chudak That depends entirely on whatever software they're using to monitor that. I have no idea. It could be fail2ban or something else. Unless you are using a user account to login to that website, his case would not apply to you. Perhaps you're blocked for another reason? We haven't yet established that you're being blocked, only that they do not respond to you. If you have a VPN (seriously, get one they're like $5/month) you could go there via your tunnel and see if it just works. Contact the site's host and ask them if you're blocked.

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                    • chudakC
                      chudak @KOM
                      last edited by

                      @kom said in pfSense blocking addic7ed, but how ?:

                      @chudak If you have a VPN (seriously, get one they're like $5/month) you could go there via your tunnel and see if it just works.

                      Forgot to mention that it did work via VPN tunnel

                      Thx

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                      • KOMK
                        KOM @chudak
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                        @chudak Well there you go.

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