Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-11 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 11 Dec 2014 01:51:32 NZDT +1300, Vick Khera wrote: If you're using my DNS zone to generate a block list for my IPs I can make those names return anything I want and get through anyway. I use hostnames in rules to permit my home office (which has a dynamic IP) to administer the

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-10 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Chris L c...@viptalk.net wrote: If you’re using my DNS zone to generate a block list for my IPs I can make those names return anything I want and get through anyway. I use hostnames in rules to permit my home office (which has a dynamic IP) to administer the

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I found the problem. My ISP changed the WAN gateway to be mostly non-responsive to pings. But only mostly, so pfsense plays yoyo with it. Aliases containing FQDN entries are removed from pf tables (pfctl -T show -t aliasname) at the start of any rule or alias change, related to the alias with

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9/12/14 12:24 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I found the problem. My ISP changed the WAN gateway to be mostly non-responsive to pings. But only mostly, so pfsense plays yoyo with it. Funny you should mention that. I've seen similar on a few of our pfSense deployments of late, with several

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 01:30:49 NZDT +1300, Chris Bagnall wrote: Yes I was wondering about (basically useless) rate limiting too. I used the ISP's web server. Or use one of the top 10 companies' one, or one of the big CDNs. For single WAN pinging 1/s doesn't quite make sense to me either so I

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris L
On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Is this why gateway monitoring is active by default? I'd have guessed most pfsense installs to be single WAN. What would gw monitoring be useful for then? Nothing could be done about the Internet going offline. It’s

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 07:39:36 NZDT +1300, Ryan Clough wrote: I, too, am using aliases which do not retain domain names or IP addresses. I opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4087 What happens is that a rule reload, which can be triggered by many things e.g. interface yoyo (see WAN gw) or

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris L
On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote: On Wed 10 Dec 2014 07:39:36 NZDT +1300, Ryan Clough wrote: I, too, am using aliases which do not retain domain names or IP addresses. I opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4087 What happens is that a rule

[pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I have some aliases containing FQDNs instead of IP addresses (very useful feature). However they keep on being removed from the pf rules. For example an alias of type networks contains IP addresses, IP networks, and domain names. When I check with pfctl -t aliasname -T show Only the IP