PfBlocker

[marcelloc]

Yes, I understood that.

The suggestion was just to use less resources from firewall.

Allow access to 40.000 network and block anything else is less work then block all countries CIDRs and allow what is not matched.

[kilthro]

Oh i c. That makes sense. Right now seems to be ok but if I see performance issues, I will take that in mind and change it up.

[trafficking]

Firstly, thank you for the excellent package.  I greatly enjoy using 3rd party lists to do IP blocking and have pfblocker configured and running the way I like it.  That said, I do have a couple questions.

1. I prefer to block inbound and outbound connections on all interfaces and use pfblocker aliases with 2 floating rules to do this.  Is this the preferred method or is there another way I am missing?

2. Not directly a pfblocker question, but in what order are floating rules applied?  Do they come before or after the individual interface rules?

Thank you very much for all your hard work!

[marcelloc]

1. I prefer to block inbound and outbound connections on all interfaces and use pfblocker aliases with 2 floating rules to do this.  Is this the preferred method or is there another way I am missing?

Define action as alias only and create your rules. That's the best way.

[justsomeguy6575]

This seems like a very good package. However I'm having trouble getting lists to work properly.

I can make a list with this url in gz format and it works fine and creates an alias:
http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_spyware&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz

For some reason no matter what I try I can't get this list to load in either txt or gz format. No alias is created and nothing is blocked.
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipblocklist

Any ideas? Thanks

[marcelloc]

For some reason no matter what I try I can't get this list to load in either txt or gz format. No alias is created and nothing is blocked.
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipblocklist

This list is in txt format and returns only ips, not CIDR or ip ranges.

so,

:)

version 1.0.1 is out with:

• fixed pfBlocker to check lists with single ips

• updated country ip files

• Return of Deny Both action(Inbound and Outbound)

• Improved some GUI info

[justsomeguy6575]

Wow.. thanks marcello! New version seems to work great.

Nice work, thanks again

[vg8open]

Thank you for a great package!  I just have one minor request for this package.  Can you add more granular options for the list update frequency?  Something like the attached image?

Thanks,

-Brian

[KongGulerod]

Thanx for a great package - I like how it integrates and uses pfSense 2.0 firewall aliases and WAN/LAN rules :-)

A small observation and fix request (latest pfSense 2.0 release + latest pfBlocker):

After placing the pfBlocker widget on the bottom part of my long pfSense 2.0 dashboard page with vertical scrollbar, I observed that the dashboard page/scrollbar automatically reverted back to the top of the page at a fixed interval (every 5-10 secs).

This is a bit annoying if I am looking at data from a widget in the bottom part of the dashboard page - and every 5-10 seconds the page jumps to the top (internal pfBlocker refresh?) and I have to manually use the scrollbar/mouse/arrow-keys to navigate back down to the bottom of the page.

If I temp. removed the pfBlocker widget from dashboard the mis-behaviour went away also.

Hope you can reproduce this scenario and look forward to next release :-)

[marcelloc]

I observed that the dashboard page/scrollbar automatically

Thanks for the feedback.

I`ve removed scroll call in widget.

reinstall package in about 15 minutes.

If you have many widgets, consider testing widescreen package. It may help you.

[AhnHEL]

Reinstalled and now I'm not getting any CIDRs or Packets in the widget.


[marcelloc]

fixed javascript again, try reinstall in 15 minutes.

[LEPM]

pf 2.0 i386 + squid+squidguard+pfblocker 1.0 and 1.0.1 works very well (deny inbound)

pfblocker 1.0.1+ deny both, crash pfsense!!
reboot and crash,crash…
changing to deny inbound,works well again

[marcelloc]

Can you be more specific on what kind of crash you have?

I'm using deny both with no issues or crashes.
Boot process is fine too.

[KongGulerod]

@marcelloc:

I`ve removed scroll call in widget.
reinstall package in about 15 minutes.

Seems to work fine now… no forced scrolling to the top when refreshing numbers.

Thanx !!

[AhnHEL]

Getting this error now trying to enable pfBlocker, and the widget still looks like the pic i posted above.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10499768 bytes) in /usr/local/pkg/pfblocker.inc on line 281

[RonpfS]

Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries under System: Advanced: Firewall and NAT
you may have to increase Firewall Maximum States at some point

[RonpfS]

@marcelloc:

fixed javascript again, try reinstall in 15 minutes.

Reinstalled and now the Dashboard doesn't scroll anymoire  ;D
Being at it  8) is-it possible to have the option to Enable pfBlocker by default on reinstall?

[AhnHEL]

@RonpfS:

Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries under System: Advanced: Firewall and NAT
you may have to increase Firewall Maximum States at some point

I'm already up to 2 million entries, even increasing to 200 million doesnt resolve issue.  Been using pfBlocker since it was first introduced and havent had an issue until now.

Edit:

Using the Top Spammers works fine, it has something to do with the iBlocks lists.  Using the same bunch of lists that I PM'd you back during this post.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,42543.msg219723.html#msg219723

[RonpfS]

I ran into that kind of issue when I played with the Level 1 at some point. I was using alias only.
It looked like the table were locked by Firewall Rules, when I disabled pfblocker, the table would still showed up.
I removed pfBlocker and the table were still there under Diagnostics: Tables!!!
I install pfblocker and at some point I recovered. But I am not using Level 1 at this time.