Forum Discussion

Nimbostratus

Apr 11, 2012

DNS resolve - hosts file

Hi All, pleas help me. I'm traying configure APM portal access, but I dont have any DNS server in DMZ. So I added records into hosts file (by GUI), but the APM doesn't work and in the sessi...

Cumulonimbus

Currently host file not supported.

One option may be to create a DNS virtual server locally, and use iRule to respond.

when DNS_REQUEST {

   set ttl 60
   set A "[DNS::question name]. $ttl [DNS::question class] [DNS::question type]"

   switch [string tolower [DNS::question name]] {
      "www1.arsenal.com" {
           DNS::answer insert  "$A 10.10.10.10"    
        }
       "www2.arsenal.com" {
           DNS::answer insert  "$A 20.20.20.20"   
        }
    }
    DNS::return
}