pfBlockerNG MaxMind Registration required to continue to use the GeoIP

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Yea I just saw this information on the netgate forums. Registered. Hopefully I don’t get flooded with spam.

Thanks for the info @LTS_Tom. I followed the instructions to obtain a maxmind key, updated the data in pfSense then experimented with enabling just Top_Spammers. What I observed is that it blocked access to ubuntu.com and apt updates no matter which Deny In/Out/Both settings I used. So I just disabled the GeoIP until I can sort out later. That’s not why I am posting. I wasn’t using GeoIP before, but thought I’d look at it.

What is happening now (probably not related to above) is that DNSBL has begun blocking my access to github. Of course, I can get around by adding github to DNSBL whitelist, but I’m not sure why I’m suddenly seeing DNSBL blocking github. Appreciate any suggestions from the community.
Thanks

After further investigation I discovered that it’s caused by this list I am using:
https://heuristicsecurity.com/dohservers.txt

which contains the entry

when I disable this list (without whitelisting github) it works.

Need to read more into this, but for now. Problem solved by disabling the above list.