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teemo_13
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Mar 20, 2023

F5 XC | Stuck at VIRTUAL_HOST_PENDING_A_RECORD

I have a running OWASP Juice Shop in Azure and have assigned a public IP on it. Trying to build a load balancer using XC. I am stuck at the VIRTUAL_HOST_PENDING_A_RECORD status. Question is do I need to use my own DNS to create a domain name entry for my load balancer? Can I do anything to bypass this or any workaround you may have?

  • netta2's avatar
    netta2
    Mar 20, 2023

    You will need to build a new LB for port 80 as you cannot switch between the 2 types.  When building a HTTPS LB you can click the button to build a HTTP Redirect and it will be created for you.

    Also you have a few options for auto cert.  You can delegate a sub-domain and allow Distributed Cloud to manage the DNS records for the subdomain and provision the auto-cert.  You also can perform an auto-cert without sub-domain delegation.  You will get a cname for the acme challenge which you will have to create the record in the DNS system of the parent domain. 

  • Are you doing an HTTP LB on port 80 or doing HTTPS with Auto Cert or Bring Your Own Cert?  

    • teemo_13's avatar
      teemo_13
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      I am trying both actually. Currently HTTPS with Auto Cert because when I try to use HTTP, I encounter an error that says cant change HTTPS to HTTP 

      • netta2's avatar
        netta2
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        You will need to build a new LB for port 80 as you cannot switch between the 2 types.  When building a HTTPS LB you can click the button to build a HTTP Redirect and it will be created for you.

        Also you have a few options for auto cert.  You can delegate a sub-domain and allow Distributed Cloud to manage the DNS records for the subdomain and provision the auto-cert.  You also can perform an auto-cert without sub-domain delegation.  You will get a cname for the acme challenge which you will have to create the record in the DNS system of the parent domain.