FortiGate Open Ports FortiGuard Open Ports

FortiSandbox Open Ports

Incoming Ports
Purpose Protocol/Port
FortiGate OFTP TCP/514
Others SSH CLI Management TCP/22
Telnet CLI Management TCP/23
Web Admin TCP/80, TCP/443
OFTP Communication with FortiGate & FortiMail TCP/514

 

Outgoing Ports
Purpose Protocol/Port
FortiGuard
(FortiSandbox will use a random port picked by the kernel)
FortiGuard Distribution Servers TCP/8890
FortiGuard Web Filtering Servers UDP/53, UDP/8888
FortiSandbox Community Cloud
(FortiSandbox will use a random port picked by the kernel)
Upload detected malware information TCP/443, UDP/53
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Note that FortiSandbox uses the following FQDNs to access the FortiSandbox Community Cloud, depending on which protocol and port is used:

  • TCP/443: fqdl.fortinet.net
  • UDP/53: fqsvr.fortinet.net

Services and port numbers required for FortiSandbox

The tables above show all the services required for FortiSandbox to function correctly. You can use the diagnostic FortiSandbox command test-network to verify that all the services are allowed by the upstream. If the result is Passed, then there is no issue. If there is an issue with a specific service, it will be shown in the command output, and inform you which port needs to be opened.

This command checks:

  • VM Internet access
  • Internet connection
  • System DNS resolve speed
  • VM DNS resolve speed
  • Ping speed
  • Wget speed
  • Web Filtering service
  • FortiSandbox Community Cloud service