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dkinsler_23191
Jun 13, 2012Nimbostratus
fooling client DNS
I am getting ready to move all of my sites to a different data center and have been asked to be able to redirect traffic from our existing data center to the new datacenter using the F5 LTM's. (we do...
Richard__Harlan
Jun 13, 2012Historic F5 Account
Since this is a short term solution the easy thing to do is update the pool member of the LTM is the data center you are moving from with the IP address of the VIP in the new data center. This will force client with the old IP address through the old LTM which will LB to the new data center and to the application. There will be more latency but it will work and as DNS propagates through the internet less and less people will use it till all servers are updated. Once that happens you can remove the config from the old unit.
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