Country Block

tommyboy180

Uninstall package, Reboot box, reinstall package and enjoy.

Supermule

Still there….........

Current Status = NOT running
/tmp/rules.debug:112: cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/countryblock/countries-white.txt": No such file or directory

:-\

Supermule

But after I click the whitelist icon, do nothing and then returns to the "main" page, it works…....:?

tommyboy180

I have tested and tested today. I can't replicate your issue.

I started on a fresh install and everything is fine. I tested on Beta 2 and 1.2.3.

Supermule

Does it create the whitelist pr default or is it allready in the package before it starts?

tommyboy180

It touches it so the file is created when the package is installed.

Supermule

Can you verify that it actually does that??

I had to do it manually.

DigitalJer

I had the same error, and persistence paid off. I don't recall if it started working after a reboot, or 'Commit Countries" did it, but keep trying… Not very helpful, I know :( ...but in the end it's OK.

chpalmer

@DigitalJer:

I had the same error, and persistence paid off. I don't recall if it started working after a reboot, or 'Commit Countries" did it, but keep trying… Not very helpful, I know :( ...but in the end it's OK.

I clicked through the "whitelist" and was finally able to make it work.

:)

Guest

After I updated everything worked fine. I added some entries to the whitelist and then removed them latter. I could not get the package to start again after that. I removed the package numerous times and rebooted, and contuniued to get the same error as everyone is listing. I finally added those IP's back to the whitelist and I was able to get it to start up again.

I believe you can reproduce this issue by installing the package.

Adding some IP's to the white list.

Remove the IP's

Uninstall the package

Then reinstall it.

tommyboy180

Darklogic82,

That helped me locate the issue.
I have found the fix for this. And will be updating the package here shortly. Thank you.

Supermule

;)

tommyboy180

Update pushed.

Uninstall, and re-install please.

mgc6288

I all of a sudden keep getting the error:

/tmp/rules.debug:115: cannot load "/usr/local/www/packages/ipblocklist/lists/ipfw.ipfw": No such file or directory

Any ideas? This started, possibly coincidentally, after trying to enable both the country and the ip blocklists simultaneously.

EDIT: Well I kind of answered my own question. When I removed all the .gz links from within ip-blocklist then all of a sudden the country block loaded just fine. Is it possible to have both on at the same time, or for some reason not a good idea?

tommyboy180

They are both designed to work together if both are installed. I run both packages without a problem.

I know the error you pasted. I have gotten that error many time myself. Disabling IP-blocklist and re-enabling it usually helps.

Supermule

Done :) No errors!

Guest

So far seems to be working good. Also thanks for the whitelist feature. That really helps me a lot.

One other thing or request if you ever get free time to do so, I was wondering if you could make a log section that would either dump to the firewall log or maybe just within the package itself that would show the IP's that are being blocking by specificly the Country Block package?

Currently I don't believe the blocks show up in the firewall logs for either a block or whitelist pass.

Then down the road maybe the logging could generate reports on the CIDRS and pin-point a list of attacks and blocks from the countries and the IP's they belong to.

Thanks for all your hard work on this package. As far as running the IP-Block and Country Block together, all seems to work well.

Again Thanks,

Matt

tommyboy180

That actually sounds like a good idea. I will start work immediately.

samus

Excellent work Tom, this package is wonderfull, but sometimes when I've forbidden countries like Pakistan my access was stopped (I live in France), but it's not a problem at the moment.

The idea to see with the firewall log the country where is situated the IP is wonderfull and with this your package will be perfect :P

Thanks again Tom !

HoTWiReZ

First off, thank you for creating this package. It is very helpful to me in dealing with the worst spam offenders.

That said, I have noticed a few typos in the country names, and a few missing countries (unless I have missed something myself). This list is probably not complete, but they are the most recent examples that come to mind for me.

Typos:
Burkia Faso –> Burkina Faso
Argentia --> Argentina

Missing countries:
Montenegro
India

Again, thank you for creating this!