Unresolvable destination alias

wolfsden3

For what it's worth I was getting this error on MULTIPLE PFSense boxes. It's definitely PFBlocker / PFBlockerNG or so I thought since the alias pointed to that with this error:

Rule skipped: Unresolvable destination alias 'pfBlockerAfrica' for rule 'pfBlockerAfrica auto rule'

SSH to your PFSense > cd /var/db/aliastables > ls -lah | grep 0B and you should see a list of zero byte files (0B).

-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel    0B Nov  4 09:01 pfBlockerAfrica.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel    0B Nov  4 09:01 pfBlockerNorthAmerica.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel    0B Nov  4 09:01 pfBlockerOceania.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel    0B Nov  4 09:01 pfBlockerSouthAmerica.txt

...for example.

Remove those file: rm -f pfBlockerAfrica.txt and so froth.

Then do a reload of the IP's in PFBlocker NG: Firewall > PFBlockerNG > Update > Reload > IP.

This will refresh those files. It seems like those files had errored out for some reason and won't be overwritten with the new data so you have to manually remove them from that directory and let PFBlockerNG re-download them from their sources.

I also had a few custom feeds doing the same thing. Once I did this those errors would go away.

wolfsden3

Oh, I also noticed the errors come back! The files are 0B again. Anyone know why this behavior is happening?

It's flipping back to error mode again. I've reinstalled PFBNG but it's still behaving this way.

I thought I had this licked but apparently not!

Thanks!

wolfsden3

OK! Turns out that in: firewall > rules > lan
...there were several old rule sets with alias's that mapped to those files. I deleted them as they were no longer in use then applied the config.

Problem solved!

Thanks.