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Drax658
New Member
May 6, 2025
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Fortigate negotiating on port 853 despite DNS over TLS is disabled

  • May 6, 2025
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Hello,

 

We have implemented a vulnerability scanner in our organization, which has detected, among other things, that our FortiGates are listening on port 853 and are presenting themselves with a certificate, which is called "Fortinet_Factory" in the Fortigate web UI. Could you tell me if it is normal that this port is open despite the fact that DLS over TLS is disabled on the device? What other service could be listening on this port? The policy of my organization is to remove all vulnerabilities, so a vulnerability related to the fact that a certificate is not recognized or that a negation has occurred using a set of ciphers considered by the scanner as insecure must be eliminated. Thank you in advance for your help

2 replies

adambomb1219
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 6, 2025

Is the FortiGate running as a DNS server?

Drax658
Drax658Author
New Member
May 7, 2025

Yes, it is running as a primary DNS server for all devices in my organizations.

adambomb1219
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 19, 2025

Ouch... Why?

sw2090
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 6, 2025

if you have apple devices behind your FGT and use the FGT as DNS you will need DSL over TLS :)

If not you could disable it in the DNS Settings.