Eset Activation Server Address

[Brinda]

Wehave some devices that have outbound internet access blocked, but this prevents us from installing ESET updates. Hence, we'd like to whitelist the web server addresses for the ESET update servers. Is there a list of this web addresses - URLs and/or IP addresses?

When i tried to activate ESET through the activation server it says that it is not reachable. We noticed that our firewall blocked the connection, we have created a policy to allow the broadcast. however it looks like that the client connects through IP address(52.160.70.199) and not DNS name(edf.eset.com).

You might want to provide a pcap log from activation for a check. You can create one either using Wireshark or by enabling advanced network protection logging in the advanced setup -> tools -> diagnostics.

We cannot guarantee that the IP address won't change in the future. In the future we also plan to add RSS for KB so you could subscribe to it and be informed if there's a change in the KB with a list of the IP addresses used by ESET products.

Hello Everyone, Sorry for the late response. I figured out the issue. somehow someone had set up Remote Administrator for eset and had set only a few of our servers to be monitored by that server. well when that server was moved to another Hyper-v host the setting didnt follow and the IP address changed. when i checked the eset installations on the server (we dont have eset endpoint) they pointed to the IP address that was no longer on the server. I changed the settings on the server and it started communicating again.

Have been trying for the last few hours to allow my ESET Internet Security client to update but not getting anywhere even after creating rules to allow traffic to the "eset.com" domains and allow traffic to/from the Eset update servers to skip IPS, the only way I managed to get it to work is by adding an allow packet for "1180501012 FILE-OTHER 7-Zip RAR CVE-2018-10115 Solid Compression Remote Code Execution" to the "generalpolicy" IPS Policy however I'm not comfortable turning off one of the signatures for the whole network.

I tried to create a firewall with an exception for the *.eset.com FQDN with no IPS but that did not help, the issue is the data being flagged on the return by IP address, so when I look at the IPS log is shows "

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Firewall and antivirus software may interfere with the installation of software updates. To minimise this issue, you can configure firewall and anti virus software to permit access to - Click to view URLs >

You can configure the ports for specific IP addresses. On the server, you can add the IP addresses for the client computers to the inbound rule for the port. On the client computers you can add the IP address for the server to the outbound rule for the port. Naturally, this can't apply if you use dynamic IP addresses.

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