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
