[SOLVED] Error Loading Rules: no IP address found for Street: The line in quest.

[cirtes]

Hi folks,

I'm getting an error when loading firewall rules and cannot pin the cause.


There were error(s) loading the rules:no IP address found for street: The line in question reads

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  Is there some pointer this message can lead to so I don't have to brute-force removal of all the rules one by one?

[cirtes]

This Alias may be the culprit.


<aliases>
   <alias>
      <name>WS</name>
      <detail><![CDATA[Entry added Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:55:36 -0700||Entry added Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:55:36 -0700||Entry added Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:55:36 -0700]]></detail>
      <type>url</type>
      <descr><![CDATA[WeatherStreet Alias ]]></descr>
      <aliasurl>www.weatherstreet.com</aliasurl>
      <aliasurl>www.weather.gov</aliasurl>
      <aliasurl>weather.unisys.com</aliasurl>
      <address>Weather Street: ... <snip> ...
   </alias>
</aliases>



In the <address> tag which I truncated, the Alias gets stuffed with large amount of metadata that doesn't resolve to anything.

I have attached the saved Alias configuration.

[AdSchellevis]

Hi cirtes,

You probably selected the wrong type for your alias (I expect you needed host here), there is some documentation of the types available in our docs section.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/aliases.html?highlight=alias

I've created an issue for the corrupt download (https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/877), it would be better to check the output before writing it to the config.

Regards,

Ad

[cirtes]

Hi Ad, yes, that fixed it.

I created the Alias as "URL(s)" and not "Host(s)".

Once I configured the Alias to use the "Host(s)" the problem was resolved and the rule actually triggers correctly.

The link to the documentation helped.

I'm not sure how to mark [Resolved} but we can close this one.

[AdSchellevis]

Thanks for reporting back, I will mark this one solved and keep the validation issue on github.