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Staff & Editor
November 17, 2025

Technical Tip: How to restrict only IPV4 DNS requests from FortiProxy

  • November 17, 2025
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Description

This article describes how to restrict only IPv4 DNS requests from FortiProxy.

Scope FortiProxy.
Solution

When the admin user selects the 'Prefer DNS Result' to 'ipv4-strict' under the Explicit Proxy setting, that will not be saved in the GUI because the 'ipv6-status' is disabled.

 

To restrict only IPv4 DNS requests from FortiProxy, 'ipv6-status' should be enabled before enabling the 'ipv4-strict'.

 

From CLI:

 

config web-proxy explicit
    edit web-proxy
        set ipv6-status enable
        set pref-dns-result ipv4-strict
    end

 

From GUI:

 

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