On 2/3/08, Jan Hoevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running the embedded version of pfSense on a Soekris 4801.
> Today (3 Feb 2008) I upgraded to 1.2-RC4 and it caught my eye that the
> bogons file (/etc/bogons) dated back to October 2007.
>
> I consider bogons filtering important, so I decided not to wait for the
> next automatic update, but instead I ran the update script
> (/etc/rc.bogons_update.sh) manually.
> That did not work and, although I'm not exactly a shell script expert, I
> decided to have a look into it. I got the script running by working
> around two problems:
>
> 1. The script starts with sleeping a random interval. This caused it to
> abort with a 'od: command not found' message. Apparently the od command
> is missing on the embedded platform, and I worked around this by
> commenting out the random interval sleep.

Thanks, just fixed this.

> 2. On previous versions the bogons file was fetched from cymru.com, but
> on RC4 the script tries to get it from a pfSense server. The file is
> however missing on that pfSense server. I worked around this by copying
> the old cymru url back from RC3.
>
> Although my bogons update script is working now, I believe I didn't
> choose the best possible solution for both problems.
> I hope someone of the development team finds time to look into this
> before the next release.

Hrm.  Thanks for the heads up.  We'll get this correct ASAP.

Scott

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