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Jacob_Klein
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Jan 21, 2020

BIG-IP DNS Resolution to actual server IP

I am using BIG-IP DNS for geographic based IP resolution of my proxy servers. If the DNS request comes from Site A, BIG-IP responds with the IP for proxy 1 ; Site B resolves to proxy 2 using Topology...
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Simon_Blakely
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Jan 28, 2020

It sounds like you are somewhat confused about the nature of BigIP DNS and how to configure it.

 

BigIP DNS just resolves DNS names to IP addresses - the client then connects directly to the returned IP address, and if that IP address is not a BigIP LTM virtual server IP, then traffic will not pass through the BigIP.

 

You just need to define your Proxy IPs as Generic Server objects, not BigIP Virtual Servers.