Forwarding Traffic to URL rather than Pool

The redirect was a test to check if the LTM is processing the traffic accordingly and that was successful.

The end game here was to forward requests to a URL rather than a set of IPs/Nodes in a Pool. So yes, option 2 is the end goal.

In the SNAT, how do you go about configuring an fqdn/dns? Given that the fqdn/dns is hosted on other appliances outside our realm, we wouldn't be aware if an IP changes behind the DNS, hence a static pool with pre-defined nodes using IP addresses is out of the question.

Stefan