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Islam_Nadim1
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Nov 14, 2019

DNS Zone vs ZoneRunner

Hello All,

 

I was wondering, what is the difference between a Zone and a ZoneRunner in Big IP DNS?

I do see some people configure using Zones, and others using ZoneRunner.

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Nov 16, 2019

    zonerunner is different from a zone, zonerunner is a configuration utility for changing the bind configuration to manage zones among other things, see:

     

    https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-dns-services-implementations-13-0-0/14.html

     

    DNS zone is not specially something F5 related, are you sure about this question?

     

    when you mean DNS zone, do you perhaps mean DNS Express?

  • zack's avatar
    zack
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    Nov 16, 2019

    Zone Runner is to set up bind on Bigip, while Zone is a slave dns that copys your primary dns server's db and hosted it in bigip data plane.