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MahendraRaj_131
Nimbostratus
Sep 11, 2013DNS Persistence in GTM
Hi
We are planning to setup an Active / Active DC for our Website. All inbound traffic to our website is from AKAMAI edge servers. our requirement is to do the load balance of these inbound tra...
StephanManthey
Nacreous
Sep 11, 2013I used to work with a customer facing a similar requirement. Indeed it can always happen, that by different name resolution a client will be directed to the 'wrong' data center.
That´s why these folks implemented site specific cookies allowing to redirect to site specific hostnames.
As a result a LTM in DC1 noticed a client request with a cookie belonging to DC2. In this case it redirected to a hostname which was associated with a virtual server in DC2 only.
In my example above I forgot to discuss a fallback in case there is no match for the topology records.
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