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sstafford
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Jun 01, 2010

DNS CLone Pool

Hi All,

 

 

Got a customer (CompSci department) that had requested a copy of the queries coming in to our load-balanced dns pool. Pretty simple to resolve on my end, at least initially--set up a pool with a single member (their server) and add it as a clone pool to the dns virtual server.

 

 

Of course, now that this is done, they want more--specifically copies of forwarded queries and dns requests originating with the dns pool members themselves. I know that this can be addressed via the network by setting up a port mirror, but for various reasons we'd prefer not to do that. Is there a way this request can be addressed on the LTM?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

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  • Michael_Yates's avatar
    Michael_Yates
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    Jun 01, 2010
    Clone Pooling should be doing that for you.

     

     

    Clone Pool (Client) sends all incoming traffic from the requestor to the server specified in the Clone Pool Pool.

     

    Clone Pool (Server) sends all of the responses from the server back to the client, to the server specified in the Clone Pool Pool.

     

     

    Each respresents 1/2 of the conversation, so you could in reality send it to different servers.

     

     

    Connection Mirroring is used to mirror connection and session state information between the Active and Standby LTM's in a High Availability Pair. I do not believe that it would accomplish what you are needing.