Alias URL error

[markn6262]

I want to filter>limit an alias of URL's using Firewall/Aliases/URLs. Following this doc I tried entering several host.domain.com addresses and get "Could not fetch the URL" or "A valid URL must be provided. Could not fetch usable data from x.y.z". In all cases Diagnostics/DNS Lookup resolves the host.domain.com addresses fine. What's the trick?

[viragomann]

@markn6262
From the doc you quoted:

With a URL type alias, each entry contains a URL which returns text content containing a list of entries. Multiple URLs may be entered.

So URL aliases have to be links to text files.
If you want to add an alias with host names (FQDN) you can add it in Aliases > IP.

[markn6262]

@viragomann Was intuative to put URL's in Firewall/Aliases/URL simply by the name. Didn't think to look at Firewall/Aliases/IP to find the ability to enter hostnames rather than only IP's. I should have looked beyond the intuative, thanks.