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Thrillseeker_12
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Jun 26, 2016

F5 BIGIP VE with Virtual Forwarding Server dropped some DNS requests...

Hi all,   Last week I had a very strange issue. We have an F5 VE LTM Active/Standby Cluster pair. The setup is running stable for more than 4 months now. In this environment the F5 VE acts as an d...
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Thrillseeker_12
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Jul 07, 2016

Hi all,

 

In the meantime we found the issue for the dropped DNS requests. After removing the rate shaping policy from the forwarding virtual server the problem was solved. The funny thing is that this rate shaping policy only affected the primary F5 cluster member. On the secondary one the policy could be applied without any issues. F5 support is still analysing the issue so at the moment we do not use any rate shaping policy. Keep you posted.

 

Cheers Thrillseeker