Country Block

tommyboy180

First off, this is an AWESOME package, thank you for putting in the time and effort to make it what it is!

Question - mine will randomly report 'not running'. My DSL provider is AT&T and they change my IP randomly - sometimes twice a day (not the modem, its a result of something else they are experimenting with here in town). I think this is the cause, but I'm not sure. Logs don't report anything of interest, but that seems to be the correlation.

Is there a way to auto-start it, or to keep it from needing to be restarted every time this happens?

You can have it start via a cron job. I'm not sure why it stops even if your IP changes, the only thing that causes the package to stop is a change in the firewall configuration. What you can do have a cron job run every minute or 5 minutes to run the package. That would keep it running all the time .

mgc6288

@jerrygoldsmith:

Is there a way to auto-start it, or to keep it from needing to be restarted every time this happens?

What I did is after I installed the Cron package, I created an auto start like this:

minute: 0
hour: *
mday: *
month: *
wday: *
who: root
command: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/countryblock.sh

jerrygoldsmith

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Like I said, I don't know if it's the IP change but it seems to happen about that time. I put in the cron job, thanks a bunch!

And thanks again for the wonderful package and all the hard work you put into it!

deltaend

tommyboy180, when Traffic Shaping and country block are installed on the same pfsense firewall, it causes a 404 to be displayed when you attempt to view the traffic shaping panel and Country Block fails to run with an invalid syntax error.

tommyboy180

@deltaend:

tommyboy180, when Traffic Shaping and country block are installed on the same pfsense firewall, it causes a 404 to be displayed when you attempt to view the traffic shaping panel and Country Block fails to run with an invalid syntax error.

I found a quick fix and will be pushing an update soon.

deltaend

I love you.

jsmwalker

Hi there,

Great package, just wanted to check which interfaces this creates the rules on?

Cheers

J

Supermule

Heyy Tommy….:) Was I spot on or what??? :D

See ya ;)

tommyboy180

@jsmwalker:

Hi there,

Great package, just wanted to check which interfaces this creates the rules on?

Cheers

J

This affects all interfaces.

jward

Hi Tommy, this is a really great package - thanks for putting time into developing it! ;D

If possible in some future release it would be great to be able to apply the country block settings per interface, even better if it could be down to the Virtual IP level. I'm sure like many others, we have various services running on different Virtual IPs, some need to be open to the world, but others could be very heavily limited to 1 or 2 countries so being able to block countries down to the Virtual IP level would really help.

Thanks again,
Jon

jroberts31xray

(if im posting in the wrong area just let me know)

Thanks Tommy for a great package, i am a huge fan and it and deployed this on every firewall i build…....ok now of for the question ;D

i have a Dell power edge 1850 dual xeons 3.0's and 2g ram and about 35gb of disk space running 1.2.3. Release. (Mind you this is first time i have seen this) We had the original config for this on a "Alix" board and just moved the config file over to the larger servers on a fresh install.

Issue: Committing the country's to the block list is fine however when i Enable Country Block i receive the following error:

Current Status = NOT running
/tmp/rules.debug:44: syntax error
You are blocking 0 Networks

if anyone in the community has any ideas please let me know....Thanks again.....

Image Below.

tommyboy180

@jroberts31xray:

(if im posting in the wrong area just let me know)

Thanks Tommy for a great package, i am a huge fan and it and deployed this on every firewall i build…....ok now of for the question ;D

i have a Dell power edge 1850 dual xeons 3.0's and 2g ram and about 35gb of disk space running 1.2.3. Release. (Mind you this is first time i have seen this) We had the original config for this on a "Alix" board and just moved the config file over to the larger servers on a fresh install.

Issue: Committing the country's to the block list is fine however when i Enable Country Block i receive the following error:

Current Status = NOT running
/tmp/rules.debug:44: syntax error
You are blocking 0 Networks

if anyone in the community has any ideas please let me know....Thanks again.....

Image Below.

Just to make sure do you have the latest version of countryblock installed?
Also what other pages are you running? Traffic shaping?

jroberts31xray

Version 0.1.4 on the C.B. and i am not running shaping, packages listed below: btw we are running the FW transparent.

Package Name Category Package Version
Country Block Firewall 0.1.4
Dashboard System 0.8.8
IP-Blocklist Firewall 0.2.2

thanks for the FAST reply. ;)

Supermule

Then its not a firewall any more and doesnt do any blocking….;)

jroberts31xray

We got it…thanks again Tommy, great package.

it was a bad config file......Thanks

tommyboy180

@jroberts31xray:

We got it…thanks again Tommy, great package.

it was a bad config file......Thanks

Thank you for your support!

jroberts31xray

Yup….NP the config was from an embedded alix board and did not work when imported to a full hardware install..........from what i am told its a "Known" issue. Your package is awesome and it does the Job 100%! thanks again. The folks here at Bluegrassnet appreciate it!

kilthro

i wanted to say thanks for this package!!! its fantastic. This package is what got me introduced to pfsense since i needed something to block all of china and korea from my web servers. I have it added to cron to make sure it runs all the time as well.

I did have a question, is there any way to have this package to show up on the services screen?

I have that widget added to my main log in (dashboard) page on 2.0 and it would be good to see right there if it is running or not.

Just thought I would ask.

tommyboy180

@kilthro:

i wanted to say thanks for this package!!! its fantastic. This package is what got me introduced to pfsense since i needed something to block all of china and korea from my web servers. I have it added to cron to make sure it runs all the time as well.

I did have a question, is there any way to have this package to show up on the services screen?

I have that widget added to my main log in (dashboard) page on 2.0 and it would be good to see right there if it is running or not.

Just thought I would ask.

It's not really a service that is running to block the countries, so having this package show up in the services will not be possible. The way it works is by basically injecting a couple lines of deny rules to your fw config so being able to track the current status of the package will have to be done via other means. If you know php I would love the extra help!
There are still many changes to come and I haven't forgotten about that update deltaend!
I do appreciate the support, so thank you!

tci

I have a wierd problem. I selected 12 countries, all of spammers list + Barbados + Italy. Whenever I return to the list once saved, Barbados is never selected but it is being blocked.
Status says Currently 12 of 246 selected.

Using Chrome. Anything i'm doing wrong or is it a bug?