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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 2026 17:21:55 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blacklistd vs blocklistd
Message-ID:  <A06CF97C-2AE6-4CB2-A044-BB522B35C7A0@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <86zf5i6btk.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
References:  <791ACFD5-4DDC-4454-A88B-077801822560@lafn.org> <86zf5i6btk.fsf@ltc.des.dev>

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> On Feb 8, 2026, at 15:43, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:
>> FreeBSD 15 had added blocklistd whereas previous versions had
>> blocklistd.  [...]  I tried that, and encountered the issue that
>> postfix only supports blacklistd and ssh only supports blocklistd.
> 
> They are completely interchangeable and both Postfix and OpenSSH support
> both.
> 


I switched back to blocklistd, but the previous blacklistd entries show with blocklistctl, but pfctl only finds 5 entries whereas before there were over 800.  Also, I previously was seeing around 80 new blocking entries added every hour.  Now I am seeing 2 in the pf tables.

-- Doug




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