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      doktornotor Banned
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      You mean, like… the invisible Sync tab?

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        brandur
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        Hi
        I'm new around here(with pfSense and pfBlockerNG), so please be gentle  ;)
        First of all. What a great package. You did a awesome job.

        Back to my question. I was wondering if there are any plans to support this AmazonAWS json IP list https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json ?

        Some extra info: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html
        Thank you.

        SG-4860 w/128GB SSD & 8GB RAM

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          heliop100
          last edited by

          @doktornotor:

          You mean, like… the invisible Sync tab?

          Hi,

          My lab are at home one WAN one LAN, production at work, two WANs one LAN.
          May I sync anyway?

          Thanks.

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            heliop100
            last edited by

            May I copy the from xml backup file from one box to another?

            Thanks.

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            • BBcan177B
              BBcan177 Moderator
              last edited by

              @brandur:

              I was wondering if there are any plans to support this AmazonAWS json IP list https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json ?

              Some extra info: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html

              You can scrape the IPs from that URL or any other URL using the "html" format. However, it won't be able to distinguish the different Amazon subsets. So it will pool them all together which you could use to "Permit, Match or Block/Reject"

              "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

              Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
              Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
              Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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              • BBcan177B
                BBcan177 Moderator
                last edited by

                @heliop100:

                My lab are at home one WAN one LAN, production at work, two WANs one LAN.
                May I sync anyway?

                You can sync any pfSense Boxes whether remote or local.

                And yes you can copy / paste with the config.xml but please ensure you backup as you can crash it with an improperly formatted file.

                If you do modify a config.xml from the shell, you can delete the cache file to get those changes to take effect

                rm /tmp/config.cache

                "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                  Fesoj
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                  I have a comprehension question. Is pfBlockerNG supposed to block any traffic? I added a single IP to my IPv4 list and I can still access the web site with this particular IP. Maybe I should say that Squid is also running.

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                  • BBcan177B
                    BBcan177 Moderator
                    last edited by

                    @Fesoj:

                    I have a comprehension question. Is pfBlockerNG supposed to block any traffic? I added a single IP to my IPv4 list and I can still access the web site with this particular IP. Maybe I should say that Squid is also running.

                    Well its kind of what the name of the package implies :)
                    So to answer your question, yes the package can create firewall rules to "Block/Reject/Permit/Match"…

                    Need more info on how you have configured it to help you further.

                    "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                    Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                    Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                      heliop100
                      last edited by

                      I'm using Alienvault List and blocking outside traffic to Russia, China and North Korea.

                      Access to www.tcpiputils.com (148.251.153.34 - Germany (DE) - not listed on AlienVault) are blocked, but not on alerts or firewall logs.

                      If I reset states, it opens for a few seconds and blocks again, disabling pfBlockerNG resolve that issue.

                      Any idea?

                      Thanks.

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                      • BBcan177B
                        BBcan177 Moderator
                        last edited by

                        @heliop100:

                        I'm using Allienvault List and blocking outside traffic to Russia, China and North Korea.

                        Access to www.tcpiputils.com (148.251.153.34 - Germany (DE) - not listed on AllienVault) are blocked, but not on alerts or firewall logs.

                        If I reset states, it opens for a few seconds and blocks again, disabling pfBlockerNG resolve that issue.

                        Any idea?

                        Thanks.

                        Alienvault doesn't have that IP listed.. But run this command below to see if any other list has that included…

                        grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/ | grep '/'*

                        Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                        Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                        edit: added the -h flag to skip the filename/path

                        "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                        Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                        Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                        Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                          heliop100
                          last edited by

                          Hi, thanks for your quick answer,

                          The command gets the same of yours:

                          grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/* | grep '/'
                          148.251.195.0/24
                          148.251.88.0/24

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                          • BBcan177B
                            BBcan177 Moderator
                            last edited by

                            @heliop100:

                            Hi, thanks for your quick answer,

                            The command gets the same of yours:

                            grep -h "^148.251." /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/* | grep '/'
                            148.251.195.0/24
                            148.251.88.0/24

                            Run the following commands to report all IPs listed in the 148.0.0.0 range…

                            cd /var/db/pfblockerng/deny
                            grep "^148\." * | grep '/'
                            

                            "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                            Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                            Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                            Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                              heliop100
                              last edited by

                              Hi

                              grep "^148." * | grep '/'

                              Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                              Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                              (But I have disable/enable pfBlockerNG with keep settings cleared, and now are not blocking tcpiputils anymore)

                              Thanks.

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                              • BBcan177B
                                BBcan177 Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @heliop100:

                                Hi

                                grep "^148." * | grep '/'

                                Alienvault.txt:148.251.195.0/24
                                Alienvault.txt:148.251.88.0/24

                                (But I have disable/enable pfBlockerNG with keep settings cleared, and now are not blocking tcpiputils anymore)

                                Thanks.

                                pfBNG will only block what you configure it to block…

                                What does this command report:

                                host -t A tcpiputils.com
                                

                                Maybe tcpiputils.com resolves to a different address for you?

                                All blocked IPs should be reported in the Alerts Tab.

                                You can also try:
                                Instead of completely disabling pfBNG, goto the LAN interface and toggle the Icon at the left for each pfBNG Rule one at a time to see which Rule is causing the block for you. Then go from there.

                                "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                                Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                                Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                                Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                                  heliop100
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi,

                                  $ host -t A tcpiputils.com
                                  tcpiputils.com has address 148.251.153.34

                                  Will try your suggestion:

                                  Instead of completely disabling pfBNG, goto the LAN interface and toggle the Icon at the left for each pfBNG Rule one at a time to see which Rule is causing the block for you. Then go from there.

                                  Thanks.

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                                  • BBcan177B
                                    BBcan177 Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    As a note, Germany is listed in the TOP20 List… Did you by any chance select all of the TOP20 to block? If so... This is why its blocked...

                                    You can also create a pfBNG alias "Permit Outbound" and add the IPs that you want to bypass the Blocking rules to the "Custom list" at the bottom... Then set the Rules order to have this permit Rule above the Block/Reject rules...

                                    "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                                    Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                                    Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                                    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                                      heliop100
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi,

                                      No using TOP20.

                                      Don't know what may be happened, now are not blocking.

                                      Thanks.

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                                        heliop100
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi

                                        I'm receiving this error:

                                        [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                        The pfSense box has 4Gb ram and are at 7%.

                                        Thanks.

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                                          doktornotor Banned
                                          last edited by

                                          @heliop100:

                                          [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                          Welcome to the club. This is not a package issue, also nothing to do with lack of physical RAM. It's core OS (probably kernel-level) stuff…

                                          https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4876

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                                            heliop100
                                            last edited by

                                            ok, thanks.

                                            @doktornotor:

                                            @heliop100:

                                            [ There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:27: cannot define table pfB_IBlock: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [27]: table persist file /var/db/aliastables/pfB_IBlock.txt]

                                            Welcome to the club. This is not a package issue, also nothing to do with lack of physical RAM. It's core OS (probably kernel-level) stuff…

                                            https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4876

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