URL filtering for non http/https traffic

[Dunky]

I'm hoping posting here is going to get me a quicker answer than me trying to find sites to test and configure this.

I am working on putting together a plan to migrate a new site to Meraki infrastructure and have a requirement to permit traffic outbound from a specific vlan to to say *.abc.com on tcp ports 8080-8180.

Can I add a L3 rule with the dst as *.abc.com ?

I know about using a group policy and adding "Allow list URL patterns" but I believe that would only apply to http/https traffic?   Or am I mistaken and that is indeed the way to do it by adding say abc.com:8080-8810 ??

Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciate as I'm under a quite restrictive timeline on this one.

[KarstenI · Accepted solution]

URL filters only work when there is a URL to look at in any form. For your task, the FQDN-rules is the feature of choice:

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Firewall_and_Traffic_Shaping/MX_Firewall_Settings#FQDN_Support

[Dunky]

Many thanks.

I will have a 'play' with this on my test network over the Xmas hols, no doubt I will be bored and looking for something to occupy myself! 🙂