pfBlockerNG: Custom Black List - Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

[nasheayahu]

sourceforge.net is default defined in my DNSBL Whitelist as;

.sourceforge.net

and during updates or reloads it keeps adding;

gnaughty.sourceforge.net
pornview.sourceforge.net
dfilemanger.sourceforge.net

I have certain distro's like MX Linus that still uses the site for downloads. I created my own custom blacklist name and located at,

/var/db/pfblockerng/sourceforge.txt

in DNSBL Groups Summary, to block these URL's but I keep getting,

[ sourceforge_net ]		 Downloading update [ 05/17/25 19:26:44 ] .
[ sourceforge_net ] file_get_contents(/var/db/pfblockerng/sourceforge.txt): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory


 [ DNSBL_sourceforge_net - sourceforge_net ] Download FAIL
   Local File Failure

the permission are defined as.

-rw-rw-r-T 1 root root 49 May 17 18:37 sourceforge.txt

I'm guessing its the permissions, if so, what permissions need to be defined or what else could be the problem?

[nasheayahu]

Evening, will this be fix anytime soon or the next release? Also, is there an alternative to blocking these sights with .sourceforge.net defined in the whitelist?

[Gertjan]

@nasheayahu

Not sure what the "T" here means :

My advise : ge rid of it.

I've created my own DNSBL file :

google.com
microsoft.com
facebook.com
amazonaws.com
apple.com

Here it is :

[25.03-BETA][root@pfSense.bhf.tld]/var/db/pfblockerng: cat pfbalexawhitelist.txt
google.com
microsoft.com
facebook.com
amazonaws.com
apple.com

My pfBlockerng-devel setup

and before you re try reload (again) your file, check /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsblorig/ and /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/ and delete files with the same Header/Label name - in my case ALEX.orig

Now, reload DNSBL again.

It will work :

That said, I'm using pfBlocker-devel :

which means I don't have old bugs. Only new ones ^^

[nasheayahu]

UPDATE: I found the problem, I created the file on my local system instead of pfSense.

Thanks for your feedback!....