{"id":294,"date":"2017-08-13T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/?p=294"},"modified":"2017-08-13T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:59:00","slug":"palo-alto-url-filtering-updates-delayed-by-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/networking\/pan\/palo-alto-url-filtering-updates-delayed-by-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto: url Filtering Updates Delayed by Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Updates in url filtering may be delayed by days in application to sessions<\/h1>\n<p>Updates to url categorization and blocks do not immediately apply to all urls being filtered.\u00a0 The local cache on the Palo Alto firewall keeps the categorization and action for a url for the time period specified in the cache option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By default this is set to one week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The url cache can take time to refresh depending on the frequency of the specific url affected by the update.\u00a0 If the url was recently cached then it would be several days before the new categorization was refreshed.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\">Resolution:<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p2\">Change the cache period in the url filtering options box.\u00a0 In general this should be set to the same time period as the update cycle.\u00a0 The one week update cycle matches the one week cache time.\u00a0 When more frequent updates are retrieved the cache period should be lowered to match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This may also be lowered even with longer update cycles to prevent delays in application of updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lowering the cache hold will increase the number of requests out of the Palo Alto to get updated information on a url.\u00a0 In some high volume situations this may not be desirable.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\">Option Location:<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0Device Tab \u2014 Setup Menu \u2014 Content ID tab \u2014 URL filtering options box<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/URLFilterOptions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295\" src=\"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/URLFilterOptions-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/URLFilterOptions-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/URLFilterOptions.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Posted November 24, 2013<br \/>\nLast Revised on November 24, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates in url filtering may be delayed by days in application to sessions Updates to url categorization and blocks do not immediately apply to all urls being filtered.\u00a0 The local cache on the Palo Alto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puluka.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}