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Anycast and unicast services

Anycast and unicast services

The following services are accessed by FortiGate:

Service Non-Anycast FQDN addresses Anycast Domain name
FortiGuard Object download update.fortiguard.net globalupdate.fortinet.net
Querying service (web-filtering, anti-spam ratings) over HTTPS securewf.fortiguard.net globalguardservice.fortinet.net
Querying service (web-filtering, anti-spam ratings) over UDP service.fortiguard.net Service only in Unicast
Device info Collection Service only in Anycast globaldevcollect.fortinet.net
Device info Query Service only in Anycast globaldevquery.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud logging logctrl1.fortinet.com globallogctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud management mgrctrl1.fortinet.com globalmgrctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud messaging msgctrl1.fortinet.com globalmsgctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud sandbox aptctrl1.fortinet.com globalaptctrl.fortinet.net
FortiCare registration directregistration.fortinet.com globalregistration.fortinet.net
Secure DNS sdns.fortinet.net globalsdns.fortinet.net
FortiCloud FortiClient forticlient.fortinet.net globalfctupdate.fortinet.net
FortiMobile Tokens directregistration.fortinet.com globalftm.fortinet.net
EMS cloud forticlient-emsproxy.forticloud.com Service only in Unicast
DDNS ddns.fortinet.net globalddns.fortinet.net
GeoIP gip.fortinet.net globalgip.fortinet.net
IP blocklist ipbl.fortinet.net N/A

Anycast and unicast services

Anycast and unicast services

The following services are accessed by FortiGate:

Service Non-Anycast FQDN addresses Anycast Domain name
FortiGuard Object download update.fortiguard.net globalupdate.fortinet.net
Querying service (web-filtering, anti-spam ratings) over HTTPS securewf.fortiguard.net globalguardservice.fortinet.net
Querying service (web-filtering, anti-spam ratings) over UDP service.fortiguard.net Service only in Unicast
Device info Collection Service only in Anycast globaldevcollect.fortinet.net
Device info Query Service only in Anycast globaldevquery.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud logging logctrl1.fortinet.com globallogctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud management mgrctrl1.fortinet.com globalmgrctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud messaging msgctrl1.fortinet.com globalmsgctrl.fortinet.net
FortiGate Cloud sandbox aptctrl1.fortinet.com globalaptctrl.fortinet.net
FortiCare registration directregistration.fortinet.com globalregistration.fortinet.net
Secure DNS sdns.fortinet.net globalsdns.fortinet.net
FortiCloud FortiClient forticlient.fortinet.net globalfctupdate.fortinet.net
FortiMobile Tokens directregistration.fortinet.com globalftm.fortinet.net
EMS cloud forticlient-emsproxy.forticloud.com Service only in Unicast
DDNS ddns.fortinet.net globalddns.fortinet.net
GeoIP gip.fortinet.net globalgip.fortinet.net
IP blocklist ipbl.fortinet.net N/A