Filtering Bypass — Fortiguard Web

By encrypting DNS queries, users can prevent the firewall from identifying the domain being requested, which can sometimes bypass DNS-based web filtering .

: Users might attempt to bypass web filtering by using proxy servers or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) that are not blocked by the filtering system. These tools can encrypt traffic or route it through servers outside the filtered network. fortiguard web filtering bypass

FortiGuard normalizes URLs before categorization, but some older firmware versions or misconfigurations fail to decode certain encodings. By encrypting DNS queries, users can prevent the