Bug #14532
closed
Error is logged every time a domain in the DNSBL is temporarily unlocked or re-locked
Added by Derek Fong about 2 years ago.
Updated about 2 years ago.
Affected Plus Version:
23.05
Affected Architecture:
arm64
Description
From the Reports > Alerts tab, when I click the red lock icon to temporarily unlock a domain listed under the DNSBL Python listing, pfBlockerNG logs an error to py_error.log:
2023-06-30 16:07:41,754|ERROR| [pfBlockerNG]: Failed to parse: pfb_py_zone.txt: []
A similar log entry is generally made for each domain I lock or unlock. Functionality appears otherwise unaffected (i.e., the domain name gets locked or unlocked as expected), except the presence of errors in py_error.log causes a warning to be displayed in the pfBlocker dashboard widget. I have both wildcard and regex blocking enabled.
- Status changed from New to Not a Bug
What pfSense and pfBlocker versions are you using?
I'm unable to replicate this on pfSense Plus 23.05.1 with pfBlocker 3.2.0_5 (non-devel). Steps taken:
1. Install pfBlocker and let it update the default lists.
2. Deliberately enter links from the StephenBlack hosts list in a browser on a machine using pfSense for DNS. PfBlocker blocks the site and redirects to its information page as you'd expect.
3. In Reports > Alerts, click the red lock icon to pass that domain. This completes successfully with a banner at the top of the page saying " The Domain [ incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org ] has been temporarily Unlocked from DNSBL! ", and there are no errors in py_errors.log
Marking as Not a Bug for now.
After doing some more testing on this, I also get the results you reported, i.e., nothing gets logged to py_errors.log when you initially unlock a domain from the DNSBL. Where I do get the error is when I subsequently re-lock the domain back into the DNSBL. From then on, any subsequent lock/unlock operation triggers the log message to py_errors.log. I initially suspected this had to do with wildcard blocking enabled but I observe this behaviour regardless of its setting.
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