Blocking Access To Internet Sites; Enabling The Url Block List; Adding Urls To The Url Block List; Temporarily Disabling The Url Block List - D-Link DFL-1000 User Manual

Blocking access to Internet sites

To block access to internet sites, you enable URL blocking and then create a list of URLs and URL
patterns to be blocked. With URL blocking enabled and a list of URLs to be blocked, the DFL-1000 blocks
access to all web pages with the specified URLs or URL patterns.
This section describes:
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Enabling the URL block list

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Adding URLs to the URL block list

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Temporarily disabling the URL block list

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Temporarily disabling blocking individual URLs

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Clearing the URL block list
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Creating the URL block list using a text editor
Enabling the URL block list
Use the following procedure to turn on URL blocking by enabling the URL block list.
From the web-based manager:
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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Click Enable URL Block to enable content blocking.
DFL-1000 now blocks web pages with URLs or patterns in the URL block list.
Adding URLs to the URL block list
Use the following procedure to add URLs and URL patterns to the URL block list.
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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Click New to add a URL or URL pattern to the URL block list.
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Type the URL or URL pattern to block.
Enter a complete URL to block access to a single Internet site only. For example, www.badsite.com
blocks access to all of the pages on the badsite Web site.
Enter a pattern to block access to all web sites with the specified pattern in their URL. For example,
"bad" blocks access to any web site with "bad" in it's URL. This would include: www.bad.com,
www.bad.org, and sites with names like www.badstuff.com.
Choose the patterns that you add to this list with care. Adding a word like bad would also block the
Carlesbad caves web site.
You can use regular expressions for more complex pattern matching.
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Check the check box beside the URL or pattern so that DFL-1000 blocks web pages with this URL or
pattern.
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Repeat these steps to add all of the required URLs and patterns.
You can also add URLs to the URL block list by entering them into a text file and then uploading the text file to
the DFL-1000. See Creating the URL block list using a text
Temporarily disabling the URL block list
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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Uncheck Enable URL Block to disable the URL blocking.
Temporarily disabling blocking individual URLs
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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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