pfSense

Which version of pfSense is this on? If it's 2.2.x, have you tried 2.3?

Thanks for your reply.

It certainly does it on 2.2.4 and 2.2.5, most probably other 2.2.x versions. I haven't tried 2.3 as I'm running on the stable releases.

The easiest way to test it is to install the pfBlockerNG package (which puts the widget on the dashboard), set up a big alias (e.g. Bad peers - http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=cwworuawihqvocglcoss&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz), and then hover over the alias name.

I suspect it's not limited to pfBlockerNG aliases or the dashboard. e.g. the same mouse over popups are on the Rules screen for the firewall. So, presumably, any long alias that a user sets up will have the same problem on those screens.

My guess is that the pfBlocker widget will need to be updated for 2.3 and that would include a change to the jQuery autocomplete scheme. We should probably re-test when that conversion is done to see if the issue still exists.

I did some code for RELENG_2_2 pfSense 2.2.5 just because it turned out to be quite easy. The sample code is guiconfig.inc in pull request https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/2061

Does something like that make life easier for really big aliases?

Of course as others have said above, that then needs to be engineered to work with 2.3...

Thanks.

Phillip - the code you've linked to appears to limit the popup size to 200, which is along the lines of my second bullet - so that should work.

Steve - just to confirm, the issue does show up in the pfBlockerNG widget, but it's not limited to that. Any screen in pfSense that has the popups (e.g. the firewall rules screen) is susceptible to the issue if the alias is big enough.

That code should limit it to 100 entries. The limit is easily changed - I just picked 100 for no particular reason.