I figured this was the case. Not sure why Cisco can't just enable simple URL
blacklisting like alot of other vendor. Looks like i'll just do a route-map
on the edge internet router and set the next-hop ip for http(s) traffic to a
squid box.

Thanks Tyson

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Tyson Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can but it is not supportable.  It is not dynamic.  You have to do a
> DNS
> query on each host and block those IP's.
>
> tyson@atr-lnx:~> nslookup www.google.com
> Server:         10.200.12.25
> Address:        10.200.12.25#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> www.google.com  canonical name = www.l.google.com.
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.106
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.99
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.147
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.104
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.103
> Name:   www.l.google.com
> Address: 209.85.225.105
>
> tyson@atr-lnx:~>
>
> ciscoasa(config)# sh run url-server
> url-server (inside) vendor websense host 1.1.1.1 timeout 30 protocol TCP
> version 1 connections 5
> ciscoasa(config)# sh run filter
> filter url 80-443 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 208.85.225.0 255.255.255.0
> ciscoasa(config)#
>
> Having an invalid url-server will cause it to always be done that will
> always block it.  Really in this regard a squid server is even a better
> choice.
>
> Regards,
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max Pierson
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:52 PM
> To: CCIE_RS OnlineStudyList
> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] URL Filtering via ASA
>
> Hi Security Experts,
>
> I'm looking into doing some URL filtering (possibly content filtering). I
> see that the ASA only has options for Websense (which is out of the
> question) and Smartfilter. I believe this is the same Smartfilter i've used
> way back when (8 or so years ago) that use to be somewhat cheap for the
> content subscription feeds and ran via squid (so all you had to pay was for
> the feeds). Since Smartfilter was acquired by McAfee some time back, is
> there any option on the ASA to at a minimum filter out domains/urls without
> having to use either of those costly solutions??  Tight budget for this
> project :(
>
> Simple filter for .....
> *.adobe.com
> *.google-analytics.com
> *.whatever.com
>
> I can do this via external squid box and some next-hop foo or just use
> OpenDNS, but I would like to use the ASA as the http(s) redirect point. Any
> ideas??
>
> TIA,
> M
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