Dynamic url filtering & Log container page only checkbox meaning ?

[Karl]

Hi all,

In Objects / Security Profiles / URL filtering I wonder what mean "Dynamic url filtering" and "Log container page only" check-boxes.

I can see any differences whereas I check or not theses check-boxes.

Regards,

Karl

[ssharma · Accepted solution]

You can check both of these boxes. Checking "Dynamic url filtering" will help query for the url category that are not resolved in local database.

"Log container page only" logs only the URLs that match the content type that is specified.

One way to check is to do "test url <site's name>"

admin@myPAN>test url google.com

google.com search-engines (Base db)

"Base db", means device was able to resolve the url category from the local database. If it had to query for cloud, it would show Cloud db. I hope this helps. Thanks.

[mikand]

When using dynamic url filtering, how is this lookup being performed?

By a dns query to your own dns-resolvers or by a direct connection to the brightcloud "cloud"?

And if its the later - is this done with ssl or such and which data is being transmitted to brightcloud other than srcip for the connection along with the url which is being queried?