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How to create a url alias?

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    mudfish
    last edited by Jan 14, 2012, 6:11 AM

    i found this thread

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=38720.0

    and i'm wondering if url alias is fixed?? on the latest pfsense version. ???

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      marcelloc
      last edited by Jan 14, 2012, 10:56 AM Jan 14, 2012, 10:54 AM

      There is no problem with that.

      the alias type is host, not url.  ;)

      alias.png
      alias.png_thumb

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        mudfish
        last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 3:27 AM

        @marcelloc:

        There is no problem with that.

        the alias type is host, not url.  ;)

        there is an alias type url. :)

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          marcelloc
          last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 3:42 AM

          The alias type url downloads alias list from a url

          Sample:

          Http://192.168.1.1/mylist.php

          Mylist.php returns

          Www.facebook.com
          apps.facebook.com

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            mudfish
            last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 9:34 AM

            i will try alias by host type tomorrow as i am not on my server at the moment. i did not try that because as you can see from your screenshot that host entries by this type should be entered by their ip address not by its web address or fqdn name??? please correct me if i am wrong with that. thanks for the help  :)

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              marcelloc
              last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 10:10 AM

              Use alias=host and ip=fqdn.

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                Cino
                last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 4:18 PM

                just food for thought… if you create a host or url alias(having it point to a list with domain names in it) doesn't pfsense just grab the first IP address it resolves and puts in in a table?

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                  marcelloc
                  last edited by Jan 15, 2012, 5:46 PM

                  Yes, it will. Every apply or rules reload.

                  If dns changes you do not need to find old alias ip to replace.

                  But it will not work on sites from akamai.net for example.

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                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by Jan 16, 2012, 6:27 PM

                    It does take every IP that comes back though, so if you feed it www.facebook.com it only returns one IP, such as 69.171.228.14 - so that table would only have a single IP.

                    But if you give it something like www.google.com which returns 6 IPs at once, then all 6 would be in the table.

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                      mudfish
                      last edited by Jan 17, 2012, 1:59 AM Jan 17, 2012, 1:53 AM

                      alias by host type is really what i need and it works. thanks marcelloc  :)

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