Re: Web Site Blooking

On Saturday 20 August 2005 11:10, mrmogenahalli@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to firewalls and request a any suggestions about the following,
>
> We have a client who needs us to block a few of his web sites from the
> external world while access to the others are are not. The internal users
> should be able to access all the pages.
>
> I am not sure if this can be done on a Firewall, the client has a PIX
> running 7.0 and uses Websense for URL filtering, but from what I
> concluded this setup will url filter traffic travelling from a more
> secure network to a less secure network.
>
> Any suggestions is appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> TJ

My immediate reaction is to move all Intranet (internal) items to a machine 
separate from the machine containing the Internet (externally available) 
items.

Then simply allow appropriate external access through the firewall to the 
Internet server and block all external access through the firewall to the 
Intranet server. Of course, LAN clients have access to both machines but 
would have to display differing URL's for each...

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