PF BLOCKER DNSBL updates failing for several BlockLists

JZ8

Hello,
Is anyone else encountering or have insight on this issue with PFBlocker timing out on multiple Block List updates?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Gertjan

@JZ8 said in PF BLOCKER DNSBL updates failing for several BlockLists:

multiple Block List updates

Which ones ?

terryzb

@Gertjan
For me, this one. Have not investigated yet.

Gertjan

@terryzb

This :

isn't a good thing to do.
I say this because :
These list don't change very often.
Still, you want to update them every hour ? (Why ?)
Now, imagine that there are 1 million pfSense users, and many of them use pFblocker, and 'some' of them also use MaxiMind. Btw : you have a valid license, right ? It's free, but you still have to obtain an access key.
Result : the MaxiMind servers will get hit really, extremely, hard .... and as bandwidth costs loads money, they started to filter for 'abuse'. See their usage conditions.

I'm not Maximind, I don't know what they do, how they do it. I know what I would to to protect my resources, especially when it doesn't make any money.
My advise : lower the download frequency. Ones a day, or even less, will be just fine.

terryzb

@Gertjan You're absolutely right. Yes, I do have a Maxmind account. I set it up a while ago and I believe just left it at defaults. I will change the frequency. Thanks for catching this. Maybe this is the issue -- they're throttling access since it's not updated very often.