Extended Blocklists are not accessible after upgrading to the Business version

[Guido 223]

Hi,

I upgraded to the Business version today, but I can't access the "Services: Unbound DNS: Extended Blocklists" menu; it's missing from the GUI.

The previous "Services: Unbound DNS: Blocklists" feature no longer seems to work.
Websites now display ads, e.g., from doubleclick.net. The tester correctly returns "Block," but the blocking does not work.
{
  "status": "OK",
  "action": "Block",
  'policy': {
    "source_nets": [],
   
"address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rcode": 0,
    "description": "Steven Black List",
    'id': "beee638e-a1e0-40b8-a405-4d93f1023a57",
   
"passlist": ".*localhost$",
    "prio": 3.402823669209385e+38,
    "hidx": 0,
    'bl': "sb"
  }
}

What can I do to get the blocklists working again?
And how to access the Extended Blocklists?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Your post is a bit confusing because according to the documentation the Extended Blocklists are a Business Edition only feature. So if you upgraded from Community Edition to BE you they should have not been available before and should be now.

Now if you actually "upgraded" a BE installation to a newer CE one, that would explain why the feature is now gone.

[Guido 223]

Hi,
thanks for the reply! To clarify:
I upgraded from Community Edition 26.1.8_5 to Business Edition 26.4_14, installed all updates, and restarted the system.

I expected the Extended Blocklists to now be found under Services -> Unbound DNS -> Extended Blocklists, as described in the documentation.
https://docs.opnsense.org/vendor/deciso/extended_dnsbl.html

However, this entry is not present, only Services -> Unbound DNS -> Blocklists can be found. I suspect that in CE 25.7.8, there was an integration into the regular blacklists?
https://sheridancomputers.com/blog/view/videos/how-the-new-unbound-extended-blocklists-work-in-opnsense-25-7-8-full-guide

I had issues with the Unbound DNS blacklists yesterday after the upgrade, so I used a backup to performed the CE -> BE upgrade process again today, and now the blocking works as expected.

I will therefore consider the issue resolved for now, but I welcome any suggestions or tips.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

@Monviech can you shed some light on this? The documentation still lists Extended Blocklist as a BE feature, if I am not mistaken.

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

It has been merged into community, documentation might need an update.