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Daniele Brugnara

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:34:57 AM9/12/16
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Hi there.

I have also checked the others 3d with similar problems but they have solved purchasing the license which should not be the case for me because I am using on local environment and shallalist "for non commercial use" should be enough.

Since yesterday everything worked fine but now I have a centralized DHCP which injects dns to the clients. In our house we have 10-14 clients connected and I am using nxfilter to remove ads, tracking and some more (we also have kids).
A reboot solved for a couple of hours. Now for every request I can see "invalid license" on the nxfilter dashboard. I can surf but nothing is blocked.

nfilter version: 3.4.2
list: shallalist
configuration: user auth by ip. There is only a user with a subnet: 192.168.1.1/24.

My gateway also uses now this DNS.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

Jinhee

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:40:46 AM9/12/16
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Did you block HTTP port toward Internet on NxFilter? And you need to open UDP/123 as we need to check the standard time.

Jinhee

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:41:07 AM9/12/16
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All outgoing ports to the Internet.

Daniele Brugnara

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:43:14 AM9/12/16
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Thank you for the quick reply.

Let me say no. Nothing is blocked for the inside->outside direction.

Can be related to the fact I have changed the gateway IP? Should this also be also configured in the nxfilter machine?

Jinhee

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Sep 12, 2016, 6:01:30 AM9/12/16
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On NxFilter system, do this,


Do you get somthing?

Daniele Brugnara

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Sep 12, 2016, 6:20:51 AM9/12/16
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Nothing was shown. I have fixed now and I can ping/wget that page but the error persists.
May I have forgot something?

Thank you for your time.

Jinhee

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Sep 12, 2016, 6:50:42 AM9/12/16
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Did you restart it? And how did you fix it? Was it not related to UDP/123?

Daniele Brugnara

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Sep 12, 2016, 6:54:25 AM9/12/16
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I have modified the default gw setting to the right one and changing the default system dns to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 now I am able to ping the web from the nxfilter machine.

I have rebooted the machine but I am also full of Invalid License errors. If you need more details, just ask. 

Daniele Brugnara

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Sep 12, 2016, 7:58:02 AM9/12/16
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EDIT: now it is working as expected.

Can be related to some cronjob requiring some time to take effect?

I have done nothing except for what I already have told.

Jinhee

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Sep 12, 2016, 8:33:23 AM9/12/16
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No. We don't touch anything on the system like Crontab. Might be related to restarting NxFilter.

Bill Christian

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Jun 16, 2020, 11:31:16 AM6/16/20
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I know this thread is old, but in case it might help someone that is currently searching for an answer to this issue, I have found that NxFilter will display "invalid license" in the Reason column and deny DNS lookup requests if Shallalist is not updated on all cluster nodes. Evidently, they all have to be at the same update level or you will get this message.

If you are using Ubuntu or Debian to host nxfilter, log into the CLI and navigate to /nxfilter/bin (substitute your actual path where you "installed" nxfilter) and issue the following commands to update Shallalist:
  systemctl stop nxfilter
  ./update_sh.sh
  reboot  (or optionally just sytemctl start nxfilter)

Jahastech

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Jun 16, 2020, 9:35:19 PM6/16/20
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This could be misleading. We don't support Shallallist with v4 and 'Invalid License' is about opening outgoing TCP/80 and UDP/123 typically. I don't think we check anything with Shallist update status even if it is v3.

Also, we support a free Jahaslist license to v3 users if they switch it to v4 until the end of June 2020.
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