Country Block

philrou

to th enewbie guy, country block in the 1.23 packages not installed (if you're using 1.2.3 pfsense release).

JustinHoMi

I'm having trouble with this package. After I click save, it says "Current status = Running". But a few minutes later it will stop running. Any ideas on how to debug this?

FYI, I only have the "Top Spammers" checked.

tommyboy180

@JustinHoMi:

I'm having trouble with this package. After I click save, it says "Current status = Running". But a few minutes later it will stop running. Any ideas on how to debug this?

FYI, I only have the "Top Spammers" checked.

Are you making changes to firewall settings? Please read the FAQ on the first post.

JustinHoMi

No, this happens without making any firewall changes.

tommyboy180

@JustinHoMi:

No, this happens without making any firewall changes.

To help you better I need more info.
Version of pfsense:
packages installed:
How you applying the package:
After it's running, when do you notice it's not:

JustinHoMi

I'm using pfsense 1.2.3.

I installed the package with the web interface. When configuring it, I click enable, commit, and save. However, usually after clicking commit, it disables the Enable checkbox. So it's more like enable, commit, enable, save.

I notice it's not running after waiting a few minutes then going back to the Country Block configuration page.

# pkg_info
arc-5.21o_1         Create & extract files from DOS .ARC files
arj-3.10.22_1       Open-source ARJ
arj-3.10.22_3       Open-source ARJ
bandwidthd-2.0.1_1  Tracks bandwidth usage by IP address
clamav-0.96.1       Command line virus scanner written entirely in C
cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
cyrus-sasl-2.1.23   RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
denyhosts-2.5       Script to thwart ssh attacks
gd-2.0.35,1         A graphics library for fast creation of images
gdbm-1.8.3_3        The GNU database manager
havp-0.91_1         HTTP Antivirus Proxy
jpeg-6b_4           IJG's jpeg compression utilities
lha-1.14i_6         Archive files using LZSS and Huffman compression (.lzh file
libiconv-1.11_1     A character set conversion library
lightsquid-1.7.1_1  A light and fast web based squid proxy traffic analyser
mysql-client-5.1.44_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
ntop-3.3.8          Network monitoring tool with command line and web interface
openldap-client-2.4.10 Open source LDAP client implementation
openldap-client-2.4.11 Open source LDAP client implementation
openldap-client-2.4.22 Open source LDAP client implementation
p5-GD-2.39          A perl5 interface to Gd Graphics Library version2
pcre-7.9            Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
pcre-8.00           Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
pcre-8.02           Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
perl-5.10.1         Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-5.10.1_1       Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-5.8.8_1        Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-5.8.9_3        Practical Extraction and Report Language
python24-2.4.3_3    An interpreted object-oriented programming language
snort-2.8.6_1       Lightweight network intrusion detection system
squid-2.7.9         HTTP Caching Proxy
squid_radius_auth-1.10 RADIUS authenticator for squid proxy 2.5 and later
stunnel-4.25        SSL encryption wrapper for standard network daemons
unzoo-4.4_2         A zoo archive extractor


From the web interface:
Country Block
Dashboard
Dashboard Widget: Antivirus Status
Dashboard Widget: HAVP
Dashboard Widget: Snort
HAVP antivirus
Lightsquid
OpenVPN Status
bandwidthd
ntop
snort
squid
stunnel

All the latest versions except squid, which looks like it was updated today.

tommyboy180

Something is regenerating your firewall settings I think. Every time rules.debug is run your country block package stops running. I have been running country block for a month now without errors or interruption.

Start to eliminate variables. Disable packages and services and start to narrow it down. If you want to help me get to the bottom of this now email me your config and I can probably give you an answer within the hour.

JustinHoMi

Ok I'll start disabling packages and see what happens. If I can't figure it out I'll send you my config.

JustinHoMi

I disabled everything I could and no luck. What sections of the config should I send you?

Thanks for offering to look at it for me.

tommyboy180

If you don't mind just send me the entire config.

JustinHoMi

That's fine. Just got to edit the config. I'll send it to you in a sec.

Edit: Sent. Thanks!

Supermule

No probs here either. :)

SP0

@tommyboy180:

@csnf:

I get file system errors trying to write.

I can look further into this, I usually don't support nanobsd because of special exceptions I make.
The script is getting hung up on creating two files, countries.txt and lists/countries.txt. Perhaps you can make these files and modify the permissions so they cannot be removed.

Were you able to look further into this - or can you provide a little more detail on how to fix? I have the same issue (pfSense 1.2.3 on Alix). Thanks.

mgc6288

I must be doing something wrong, or am finding the wrong IP of spammed emails. First, I have nearly every country checked, including the Dominican Republic. I've still received a few emails and my mail server separates them and lists their IP in the subject line for me. Recently I found one with an IP of 200.42.239.139 which as stated here:

http://ip-address-lookup-v4.com/lookup.php?ip=200.42.239.139

Points to the Dominican Republic. Am I finding a fake IP from the sender? Thanks.

Supermule

Depending on what the spammer uses as relay….

kpa

Look at the last ip address before your own email server in the received headers, that's the IP address checked by country block.

tommyboy180

Version 1.4 released.

Added logging option.
Added missing country. (India is in the top 10 list)
Fixed misspellings.
Changed installation process.

mgc6288

@tommyboy180:

Version 1.4 released.

Added logging option.
Added missing country. (India is in the top 10 list)
Fixed misspellings.
Changed installation process.

After some looking around…is the logging feature located under status --> system logs --> Firewall?

tommyboy180

Yes, system logs -> Firewall.
I am still working on a way to filter what is logged only by the package. That requires a lvl 67 programmer and I am only lvl 66.

Right now the only way to tell if something is blocked by the package is to click the red x on the logged event.

darklogic

Came across some issues. I found you may need to uninstall the 1.3 package and then reboot you system after the uninstall. Then install the new 1.4 package and reboot again. I was not able to get the new version to start until after I did the following. This is just something to try if anyone else happens to get this same issue for what ever reason.

Other than that, the package is working great. Good job on implementing the logging. I have a feeling level 67 will soon come about.

Thanks again for all the hard work tommyboy180