Fortigate Web Rating Override Not Working |verified| May 2026

Not a category block. An error .

Marcus realized the truth. The FortiGuard servers had been unreachable for the past six hours due to a DNS failure on WAN2. When a FortiGate can’t reach FortiGuard, it doesn't just "allow everything" – it falls back to a default action. In his profile, the fallback was set to .

set ovrd-permit – wait, no. That wasn't the issue. fortigate web rating override not working

And he set the fallback action to for the HR VLAN.

Marcus sighed. He’d personally whitelisted that exact URL two weeks ago. Not a category block

He logged in. There it was: . The URL was listed with a big green checkmark – “Allow.” The static filter was above the FortiGuard category list. It should have worked.

“No problem, Carla. I’ll check the FortiGate.” The FortiGuard servers had been unreachable for the

“Marcus… the new sexual harassment training video is stuck. The LMS says ‘Category Blocked: Adult / Sex Education.’”