Technical Tip: How to create internet service database based on geographical information
Description
This article describes how to configure internet service database objects with geographical information in the policy.
Geographic-based Internet Service Database (ISDB) objects allow users to define a country, region, and city.
These objects can be used in firewall policies for more granular control over the location of the parent ISDB object.
ISDB objects are now referenced in policies by name instead of ID.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
To apply a location-based ISDB object to a policy from the GUI.
- Create the ISDB object.
- Go to Policy & Objects -> Internet Service Database and select 'Create New'.
- For Type, select 'Geographic Based' and configure the other settings as needed.
- Select 'OK'.
- View the IP ranges in the location-based internet service.
- Go to Policy & Objects -> Internet Service Database.
- In the table, hover over the object created in step 1. and select 'View/Edit Entries'.
The list of IPs is displayed.
- Select 'Return'.
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Add the ISDB object to a policy.
- Go to Policy & Objects -> Firewall Policy. Create a new policy or edit an existing policy.
- For Destination, select 'Internet Service' and select the ISDB object created in step 1.
- Configure the other settings as needed.
- Select 'OK'.
- Create the ISDB object.
config firewall internet-service-name
edit "test-locaction-isdb-1"
set type location
set internet-service-id 65536
set country-id 840
set region-id 283
set city-id 23352
next
end
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View the IP ranges in the location-based internet service.
diagnose internet-service id 65536 | grep "country(840) region(283) city(23352)"
96.45.33.73-96.45.33.73 country(840) region(283) city(23352) blacklist(0x0) reputation(4), domain(5) popularity(0) botnet(0) proto(6) port(1-65535) 96.45.33.73-96.45.33.73 country(840) region(283) city(23352) blacklist(0x0) reputation(4), domain(5) popularity(0) botnet(0) proto(17) port(1-65535) 198.94.221.56-198.94.221.56 country(840) region(283) city(23352) blacklist(0x0) reputation (4), domain(5) popularity(4) botnet(0) proto(6) port(1-65535) 198.94.221.56-198.94.221.56 country(840) region(283) city(23352) blacklist(0x0) reputation (4), domain(5) popularity(4) botnet(0) proto(17) port(1-65535)
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Add the ISDB object to a policy.
config firewall policy
edit 99
set name "Demo_Policy"
set srcintf "wan2"
set dstintf "wan1"
set srcaddr "all"
set internet-service enable
set internet-service-name "test-locaction-isdb-1"
set action accept
set schedule "always"
set logtraffic all
set logtraffic-start enable
set auto-asic-offload disable
set nat enable
next
end
Note: In ISDB policies, only ISDB objects can be added to the destination address, a combination of ISDB and IP/ FQDN address objects cannot be created. It will show an error while adding the address object.
