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shocko
Explorer III
April 30, 2026
Question

Forticlient EMS Application Firewall Blocking DNS

  • April 30, 2026
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I’m using Forticlient 7.2.14 with EMS Cloud 7.4.5. All of a sudden some users are reporting that they cannon’t connect to anything (Web or corporate VPN). After investigation we found that the application firewall in our EMS profile is blocking DNS for some clients even though this same profile is working for others on the same hardware/forticlient versions. This happens off fabric and prevents even connection to EMS so users cannot then connect to the fabric (VPN). Our only path to fix was to disconnect from EMS (with password), disable the application firewall in the EMS profile and reconnect with an invitaion code. All works thereafter.

 

What might cause this given nothing has changed in our configuration other than EMS cloud auto-updating to 7.4.5 in early April? 

1 reply

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
April 30, 2026

Can you share the profile?

And how do you know it is blocking DNS?

Is it blocking DNS-over-TLS or legacy DNS UDP 53?

Can you try with nslookup to confirm?

AEK
shocko
shockoAuthor
Explorer III
May 1, 2026

Yes blocking standard DNS over UDP 53. it doe snot block at the wire but applications requesting DNS just get timeouts so assume it manipluates DNS higher up the stack.Â