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Sweatboy
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Sep 28, 2022

F5 DNS with cPanel Web Hosting Server

Hi,   We have a publicly accessible web hosting server backed by cPanel and currently we are using F5 to handle our DNS.   The problem that we are facing is when one of our end customer adds a Zo...
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JRahm
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Hi Sweatboy, are you using wideIPs on F5DNS for this, or managing it in ZoneRunner? If the former, that could be automated with iControlREST, if the latter, it can still be automated, but would require the SOAP version of iControl, which is aged but still supported. 

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JRahm
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Sep 29, 2022

An example messing around with the python bigsuds library:

b = bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname='ltm3.test.local')
rrs = b.Management.ResourceRecord.get_rrs([{'view_name': 'external', 'zone_name': 'test.local.'}])
for rr in rrs[0]:
    print(rr)
    
test.local.             500     IN      SOA     ltm3.test.local. hostmaster.ltm3.test.local. 2021091401 10800 3600 604800 60
test.local.             0       IN      NS      ltm3.test.local.
test.local.             3600    IN      CAA     0 issue test.local
test.local.             3600    IN      CAA     0 issuewild test.local
gslb_test.test.local.   0       IN      A       192.168.102.40
ltm3.test.local.        0       IN      A       127.0.0.1
w3.test.local.          3600    IN      A       10.0.0.102
www.test.local.         0       IN      A       10.0.0.101
 
b.Management.ResourceRecord.add_a(view_zones = [{'view_name': 'external', 'zone_name': 'test.local.'}],
                                  a_records = [[{'domain_name': 'w4.test.local.', 'ip_address': '10.0.0.104', 'ttl': 3600}]], sync_ptrs = [0])
rrs = b.Management.ResourceRecord.get_rrs([{'view_name': 'external', 'zone_name': 'test.local.'}])
for rr in rrs[0]:
    print(rr)
    
test.local.             500     IN      SOA     ltm3.test.local. hostmaster.ltm3.test.local. 2021091402 10800 3600 604800 60
test.local.             0       IN      NS      ltm3.test.local.
test.local.             3600    IN      CAA     0 issue test.local
test.local.             3600    IN      CAA     0 issuewild test.local
gslb_test.test.local.   0       IN      A       192.168.102.40
ltm3.test.local.        0       IN      A       127.0.0.1
w3.test.local.          3600    IN      A       10.0.0.102
w4.test.local.          3600    IN      A       10.0.0.104
www.test.local.         0       IN      A       10.0.0.101