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publictoiletbowl

hello community and support

my new netgate 7100 1U but i got an error on this is there any way to fix this? new to pfblocker here, thanks

Assembling DNSBL database...... completed [ 09/21/22 10:04:49 ]
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Starting Unbound Resolver... Not completed. [ 09/21/22 10:04:50 ]
[1663725890] unbound-control[82729:0] error: connect: Can't assign requested address for 127.0.0.1 port 953

Gertjan

@publictoiletbowl

Hi,
New or not, why not posting in the pfBlokcerng forum ?

and have a look at the already present posts, as there is a lot to know.

Btw : the DNSBL part of pfBlokcerng has 'nothing' to do with the 'firewall'.

@publictoiletbowl said in new to pfblocker:

Can't assign requested address for 127.0.0.1 port 953

It means that 'some one' ( a process ) is al ready listening on this port 953.

This is most probably another instance of unbound that is acting as a zombie in memory, blocking resources like ports (files, memory etc).

Do this ;
In the GUI, stop the unbound process.
Enter the console (better : use SSH), go for option 8.
Enter

sockstat | grep :953

if this lists one or more lines : you found the process that blocks port 953 !

Example :

unbound  unbound    53871 13 tcp4   127.0.0.1:953         *:*

Your mission : kill it (kill them).
Like

kill 53871

where 53871 is the process ID.
If there was more then one : kill them all.

Now, in the GUI, start unbound.

Do a full reload for pfBlockerng.