MPF blocking works, but windowsupdate and some other sites are down or unstable

Dec 30, 2008 2 Replies
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Hi,



I have a ASA with the configuration below to block 3 domains. This blocking works fine, and for some time I thought everything was great.



But then I realized that some websites was down or unstable ex: windows update. If I disable the configuration with: no service-policy inside-policy interface inside



Everything comes back to life... am I doing something wrong?



//Cosmic


regex domainlist1 "\\.dating\\.dk" regex domainlist2 "\\.facebook\\.dk" regex domainlist3 "\\.facebook\\.com"



access-list inside_mpc extended permit tcp any any eq www access-list inside_mpc extended permit tcp any any eq 8080



class-map type regex match-any DomainBlockList match regex domainlist1 match regex domainlist2 match regex domainlist3



class-map type inspect http match-all BlockDomainsClass match request header host regex class DomainBlockList class-map inspection_default match default-inspection-traffic class-map httptraffic match access-list inside_mpc ! policy-map type inspect http http_inspection_policy parameters protocol-violation action drop-connection match request method connect drop-connection log class BlockDomainsClass reset log



policy-map inside-policy class httptraffic inspect http http_inspection_policy! service-policy inside-policy interface inside


You might want to check the logs to see if stuff is being dropped due to protocol violations. Your config looks fine to me, doing a similar thing with a few customers to block Facebook, youtube, etc. Haven't had complaints about Windows Update not working as yet. The only downside is that this doesn't work with HTTPS. Bear in mind that your users could just put .nyud.net or 6a.nl on the end of those URLs to access them; you could easily modify the regexps to match this. Also "\\.facebook\\..*" could replace regexps 2 and 3.

Hi,

When MPF turned on I can not access

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(ip: 195.137.194.128) (the Danish public tv station) If I remove MPF it comes back to life.

I have compared the diffecences in the syslog. Entering dr.dk WITH MPF see:

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Entering dr.dk Without MPF see:
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In the syslog (with MPF) I can se a lot of ?critical? issues (Inbound TCP connection denied from?).

Can something about this?

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