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JimW_156953
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May 23, 2014

GTM - disabling bind

It is becoming a contentious issue of f5 support personnel not supporting BIND, though configured and installed by f5 consultants? What is the best way to permanently disable BIND so that no-one can ...
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Cory_50405's avatar
Cory_50405
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May 23, 2014

You can disable BIND in the DNS profile applied to your listener. Just set 'Use BIND Server on BIG-IP' to disabled.

 

ZoneRunner will still show up in your GUI though. Suppose you could stop the zrd and named services, though that may cause other problems.

 

Packaging BIND with your product and then refusing to support it is frustrating though. Happened to us as well.