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svs
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Sep 26, 2018

BIG-IP use of "Network > DNS Resolver"

Hi guys,   I was searching for a longer time now to find a useful description of the DNS resolver feature in the BIG-IP (no, I'm not talking about DNS a.k.a. GTM). The feature can be found in "Net...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Sep 27, 2018

A DNS resolver is an object that let you configure which DNS servers will be used.

 

F5 seems to use it for new features like forward proxy, OCSP stappling, Proactive Bot Defense, AFM FQDN objects, ...

 

All features existing before version 11.0 are still using system DNS configuration...