atar wrote on 06/14/2016 16:05:
atar wrote on 06/14/2016 14:52:

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The hostname "google.com" isn't blocked since its current ip differs from its 
previous ip when pf has loaded the rule, what can I do in order to be able to block such 
sites (with many ip addresses)?

I would use tables and populate them periodically from shell script which can 
do FQDN to many IPs resolution.

It can be simple as this

host yahoo.com | awk '$0 ~ /has address/ { print $4 }' > /var/run/pf.yahoo_table
pfctl -t yahoo_table -T replace -f /var/run/pf.yahoo.table

I am sure you will find better solution :)

Miroslav Lachman
Thanks for your answer, it is an interested idea.

However, is this method of update periodically the pf tables not disturb or 
burden the performance of the pf filter engine especially if the script that 
update the tables runs too often?


How often is "too often"?
I think that updating the tables every 5 minutes is enough (no one uses shorter TTL for DNS entries) The nicest thing on PF tables is you don't need to reload PF and tables can live in memory (not need for persistent file on filesystem) so all operations are really quick. Our PF firewalls are using tables with thousands of entries without any issues.
I don't see any trouble even if you will update tables each minute.

Miroslav Lachman

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