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rob_carr
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Mar 02, 2023

BIND Forwarder Server List

If the DNS Lookup Server List is used to allow the BIG-IP to resolve FQDNs used for nodes and other network objects, what is the BIND Forwarder Server List used for? A recent manual say that the list...
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jg_abaitua
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Oct 11, 2023

Hello,

Havent used it in production, but as far as i know, that option will set the default forwarder DNS servers to be used by BIND DNS server that is installed as part of the DNS (GTM formerly) module, for managing queries when they are neither wide-ips, dns-express, dns-cache, etc, as a "fallback".

For example its mentioned here:

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K12224

Jaime.