How to blocking certain Web URLs..

[tryllz]

Hi,

I have been trying to find how to block just some URLs but can't seem to find how. I tried by using Alias > Host (IP) and applied it to Destination in a rule but that was ineffective. The only way I see is by using the Web Filtering and downloading the list file as shown here https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/proxywebfilter.html that uses Category based blocking.

Any other way I can block some URL's, by manually entering them, or via some custom txt file that can be uploaded to the firewall ?!

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Thank You

[Patrick M. Hausen]

A network layer firewall just sees IP addresses and ports and cannot identify specific URLs. So you would need to use a web proxy to do that.

[tryllz]

A network layer firewall just sees IP addresses and ports and cannot identify specific URLs. So you would need to use a web proxy to do that.

But with Proxy it doesn't allow Custom URL's to be blocked, or perhaps I wasn't able to find how.

[Matriciel]

Maybe with Sensei or a real external web proxy

[lfirewall1243]

If your Client and the Opnsense are using the same dns (better the OPNsense is the DNS Server for your client).

You can block them via an Alias