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Website exclusions

You can specify websites for exclusion using IP address, IP address range (in CIDR notation), or domain.

You can't use wildcards in website exclusions.

Note

If you exclude a website, we don't check the category of the website and it's excluded from web control protection. See Website Management.

Examples

  • IP address: 192.168.0.1
  • IP address range: 192.168.0.0/24
  • The appendix /24 symbolizes the number of bits in the prefix common to all IP addresses of this range.

Thus /24 equals the netmask:

11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000

In our example, the range includes all IP addresses starting with 192.168.0.

  • Domain: google.com