URL Filtering

[seanmccoy]

I changed some rules around to secure things a little more. I need to allow Netflix/YouTube either by user or subnet because it is now blocked with my changes. What is best practice to create a new policy to do so? I currently have a staff and student URL filtering policy in place.

[seanmccoy]

I see what I want allow blocked on the URL filtering log but not the Traffic log. Application type Netflix-base for appears allowed in Traffic log but action is block-url in the URL filtering log.

[reaper · Accepted solution]

URL filtering happens at layer7 whereas traffic log is typically layer3 type of stuff, so it is perfectly possible to allow a tcp session in traffc logs and then block the url due to url filtering profile. The zebbrowsing session is blocked because the website category is bad, but the tcp communication underneath happens normally (hence an allow in traffic log)

It is best practice to build a policy based around User-ID as this will allow your users to all occupy the same IP space without you needing to set reservations to make sure certain people get specific access (and the potential of someone else figuring out the IP and hijacking it to get privileges)