is it really useful to add fortinet DNS servers in the fortigate firewall DNS settings or we can use any public DNS servers ?
what are the benefits of adding fortinet DNS servers, 208.91.112.53 inside the fortigate firewall ?
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Dear yeowkm99,
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Problem Description:-
Query regarding Fortinet DNS server
The DNS server you have configured in FGT DNS settings will be used for fortiguard services and it is important.
Even though you use public dns still the fortiguard services will work but it is recommended to use fortiguard dns
If you add 208.91.112.53 then all your query related to the fortiguard services will be reach out to the fortiguard server and fortiguard dns server will be respinsible to solve those queries
Please find the article for the same
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.0/cookbook/121810/using-a-fortigate-as-a-dns-server....
Let us know if this helps.
Thanks
Dear yeowkm99,
Thank you for posting to the Fortinet Community Forum.
Problem Description:-
Query regarding Fortinet DNS server
The DNS server you have configured in FGT DNS settings will be used for fortiguard services and it is important.
Even though you use public dns still the fortiguard services will work but it is recommended to use fortiguard dns
If you add 208.91.112.53 then all your query related to the fortiguard services will be reach out to the fortiguard server and fortiguard dns server will be respinsible to solve those queries
Please find the article for the same
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.0/cookbook/121810/using-a-fortigate-as-a-dns-server....
Let us know if this helps.
Thanks
the reason for asking this is because recently, i have one remote office which encountered Internet outage.
We cannot even see the firewall WAN IP on the dashboard.
After some troubleshooting, we discovered that we have 2 fortinet DNS servers configured on the firewall. After replacing one of the DNS server with google DNS, the Internet works immediately.
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