04-23-2009 12:00 PM - edited 03-09-2019 10:14 PM
I have a Cisco 871 router a client site that I'm using for Internet access and they wanted various sites blocked, so I set up "ip urlfilter":
ip urlfilter source-interface Vlan1
ip urlfilter allow-mode on
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .youtube.com
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .facebook.com
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .limewire.com
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .friendster.com
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .kazaa.com
ip urlfilter exclusive-domain deny .kazaa-lite.com
And it seems to work OK, however "extra" things (with URLs that aren't even in the list) are starting to get blocked and I don't know why.
Here's the output from "show ip urlfilter cache"...
Maximum number of cache entries: 5000
Number of entries cached: 13
--------------------------------------------------------
IP address Age Time since last hit
(In seconds) (In seconds)
--------------------------------------------------------
208.117.236.70 7087 2548
208.117.236.69 19181 4531
208.117.236.75 2190 757
69.63.184.142 12187 12187
69.63.186.12 12660 12489
208.65.153.238 13591 1360
208.65.153.253 18768 64
74.125.53.118 19943 262
208.117.236.74 9821 3710
208.117.236.76 8435 2029
69.63.180.19 12220 12212
66.18.235.247 697 13
74.125.127.118 15427 696
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IPs, like the last one, 74.125.127.118, which reverse-resolves to "pz-in-f118.google.com" shouldn't be in there should they?
Has anyone seen this strange behaviour before?
04-29-2009 12:45 PM
In order to use the url filter, this requires a 3rd party server that does the url filtering. The two servers would be either N2H2 or Websense. Without the servers, the url filtering can't be done.
The system will go into allow mode when connections to all vendor servers (Websense or N2H2) are down. The system will return to normal mode when a connection to at least one web vendor server is up. Allow mode directs your system to forward or drop all packets on the basis of the configurable allow mode setting: if allow mode is on and the vendor servers are down, the HTTP requests will be allowed to pass; if allow mode is off and the vendor servers are down, the HTTP requests will be forbidden.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2t/12_2t15/feature/guide/ftwebsen.html
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