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Chapter 11 Content Filtering Screens
11.3 Content Filtering with an External Database
When you register for and enable external database content filtering, your ZyWALL accesses
an external database that has millions of web sites categorized based on content. You can have
the ZyWALL block, block and/or log access to web sites based on these categories. The
content filtering lookup process is described below.
Figure 85
Content Filtering Lookup Procedure
1
A computer behind the ZyWALL tries to access a web site.
2
The ZyWALL looks up the web site in its cache. If an attempt to access the web site was
made in the past, a record of that web site’s category will be in the ZyWALL’s cache. The
ZyWALL block, block and log or just log the request based on your configuration.
Use the
CONTENT FILTER Cache
screen to configure how long a web site address
remains in the cache as well as view those web site addresses (see
). All of the web site address records are also cleared from the local cache when the
ZyWALL restarts.
3
If the ZyWALL has no record of the web site, it will query the external content filtering
database and simultaneously send the request to the web server.
The external content filtering database may change a web site’s category or categorize a
previously uncategorized web site.
4
The external content filtering server sends the category information back to the
ZyWALL, which then blocks and/or logs access to the web site. The web site’s address
and category are then stored in the ZyWALL’s content filtering cache.
11.4 Categories and Registering
To register for and configure category-based content filtering, click
CONTENT FILTER
,
and then the
Categories
tab to display the screen shown next. Use this screen to enable
external database content filtering and select which web site categories to block and/or log.
You must register for external content filtering before you can use it (see
for detailed information).
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Page 522: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 520 Chapter 39 System Information Diagnosis ...
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Page 602: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 600 Appendix C IP Subnetting ...
Page 608: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 606 Appendix E PPTP ...
Page 626: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 624 Appendix G Triangle Route ...
Page 656: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 654 Appendix J Importing Certificates ...
Page 658: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 656 Appendix K Command Interpreter ...
Page 664: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 662 Appendix L Firewall Commands ...
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Page 674: ...ZyWALL 35 User s Guide 672 Appendix O Brute Force Password Guessing Protection ...
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