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Brant_Davis
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Oct 12, 2018

DNS Issues with Devices in Sync Group

I recently configured F5's DNS between some test DNS devices in two datacenters and trying to do a primary/standby datacenter configuration. The configuration is two virtual big-ip appliances in eac...
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Brant_Davis
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Oct 12, 2018

When I use nslookup I am getting weird results. Currently it is resolving to all four GTMs but I get dns timeouts before the response. If I use dig it works everytime and is much faster with no timeouts.

 

Has anyone else seen anything similar to this? This is my first time rolling out F5 DNS and just want to make sure everything is working properly.