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For information on the recommended Rule Actions to be applied in preparation of the August 22, 2023 feed changes, see the topic on Recommended Rule Actions in Preparation of the August 2023 Feed Changes. 

 For information on recommended rule actions to be applied to feeds as replacement to the deprecated SURBL feeds, see Recommended Feed Configuration to Replace the SURBL Feeds. 

For each policy ruleRule actions define how traffic is handled based on policy rules, such as custom lists, feeds, feed and Threat Insight, and category and application filters. For each rule, you can define specify or override the action or override it as with one of the following options:

Rule Actions:

  1. Allow – With Log:
    Grants traffic access to a domain or IP address that hits a

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  1. specific feed or security policy

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  1. and logs the queries

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  1. in all relevant reports.

  2. Allow – No Log:
    Grants traffic access to a domain or IP address that hits a

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  1. specific feed or security policy, but does not log the queries

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  1. in any reports.

  2. Allow

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  1. – Local Resolution:

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    • Only available for application filters.

    • Allows web applications to bypass DNS and resolve locally on the

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    • host.

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  2. Block – No Redirect:
    Denies traffic access to a domain or

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  1. IP address if it matches

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  1. a

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  1. specific feed.

  2. Block – Default Redirect:
    Routes traffic to the default Infoblox page or to a custom message

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  1. configured for the Redirect Page.

  2. Block – Redirect – <custom redirect name>:
    Routes traffic to a destination based on the IP address or domain you have configured for the Redirect Page.

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Depending on your subscription level, each feed and Threat Insight policy in the Default Global Policy comes with a default action. 

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title Feed Precedence Order
  • When configuring feed precedence order, the default Allow and default Block go on the top section, please remember to prioritize feeds configured with a Block action (Block - No Redirect, Block - Default Redirect, and/or Block - Redirect - <custom redirect name>) by placing them in positions of higher precedence in your policy compared to feeds configured with an Allow action (Allow - With Log, Allow - No Log, and/or Allow - Local Resolution). Within each of the Block and Allow section, place the high confidence feeds first, followed by medium confidence feeds and finally, the low confidences feed. Placing Blocked feeds higher in policy precedence order than Allowed feeds ensures that none of malicious domains are not allowed inadvertently, allowing security policy to perform as intended.
  • Ensure that you understand the ramification of overriding the default action for any threat feeds and Threat Insight rules before doing so.
  • Given that IP addresses can be reused over a period of time, blocking IP addresses is riskier than blocking domains or hostnames. So, to avoid false positives, for those external or third-party IP-based feeds like DHS_AIS_IP that are added to policy through voluntary addition (other than what’s provided by default), Infoblox recommends only an Allow-With Log policy action and not a Block policy action.

The following table lists the default actions and precedence for the feeds and Threat Insight in the Default Global Policy offered by Infoblox as of August 31, 2023. The default actions and precedence described applies only to new accounts created on or after August 31, 2023. Accounts created and configured prior to August 31, 2023 will not be affected by the new default actions and/or precedence described. In the case of prior existing accounts, the actions and precedence in effect at the time of custom list creation will not be altered. Ensure that you understand the ramification of overriding the default action for any threat feeds and Threat Insight rules before doing so. 

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Related Information:

For details on adding or removing feeds from a security policy, see the following topics: