Need help firewall is not working at all!
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Having some trouble getting the rules to work… I am trying to restrict all traffic to the internet except some applications. I would like to use DNS names in aliases to provide a white list of websites that can be accessed. so I have two aliases...
ALIASES
Alias 1
Name - DHCP
type - Host
IP address 192.168.1.30 (IP address of my machine)
Alias 2
Name - WhiteList
type - Host
IP
FIREWALL RULES
Rule 1 (Bottom)
Block
Protocol tcp/udp
source - host/alias - DHCP
all the rest is any
Rule 2 (Top)
Allow
Protocol tcp/udp
source - host/alias - DHCP
Destination - host/alias - Whitelist
all the rest is any
I can hit Google intermittently and mail.google.com never pulling my hair out here someone tell me what I am missing please.
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Here is a thought… should I be using a firewall to block website traffic or should I be using a proxy set up? Any help on this issue would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Generally you want a proxy to do website control, doing that by firewall rules is difficult to impossible for sites that use a huge number of servers and IP blocks (basically every large site).
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Yea it dawned on me that maybe I was trying to use a wrench where I needed a hammer! Now I have a whole slew of new questions to answer, I guess I am going to have to set up windows server and move from a work group to a domain to stop them from going off the proxy to avoid the restrictions. Fun fun!!! Thanks for your reply I really appreciate it!