topic Re: blocking netflix application instead of url in General Topics

blocking netflix application instead of url

MP18 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:13:46 GMT

currently i am blocking al the urls to netflix.

so when user access the website they get message blocked due to url

on cli i see PA has to do some processing in order to block the url .

if i block the application netflix instead of url that will redice the cpu processing on the PA right?

Re: blocking netflix application instead of url

BPry — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:36:57 GMT

@MP18,

The overhead for looking at URLs is pretty small, and you're honestly already doing it as part of the normal firewall processes anyways. I wouldn't expect a noticable decrease no matter what you trigger on, URL or application.

Re: blocking netflix application instead of url

MP18 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:39:46 GMT

Thanks for confirming that.

Best Regards

Mike