I figured they were probably harmless but this may be my first time upgrading with pfBlockerNG installed.
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide#Packages To save a click, the entire section's text: "It is always safest to remove packages before upgrading to a new major release. Packages will be reinstalled afterward, but are frequently a source of problems. To ensure a smooth upgrade, note the installed packages, remove them, perform the upgrade, and then reinstall whichever packages are necessary." -- Steve Yates ITS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Hellenthal Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 4:54 PM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [pfSense] Upgrading versions - uninstall packages? I for one have not had to do this thus far. But those pfB messages are harmless and more of an alert that you will need to reload the IP tables afterwards but that’s trivial. Keep in mind that I have not done that upgrade yet in a test environment before a maintenance window I have on Saturday. Curious do you have a link of where it states to remove those ? I’d like to review the reason why as I can’t see anything other than they just don’t want you to block IP comm to the update servers. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Jul 20, 2017, at 16:27, Steve Yates <[email protected]> wrote: I started to upgrade from 2.3.3_1 to 2.3.4_1 today and as instructed by the docs I uninstalled Suricata and PFBlockerNG first. I immediately got a flood of alerts like "Unresolvable source alias 'pfB_GeoIPUSv4' for rule ...". Those are of course popular packages. Do you all normally uninstall and reinstall either or both of those two packages during version upgrades? Thanks, Steve Yates ITS, Inc. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
