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Dazzla_20011
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Apr 17, 2011

GTM answer DNS requests for external site without WIDE-IP

Hi,

 

 

This be a stupid question but I really do need help with this if anyone can? The scenario is simple.

 

 

A domain (test.com) is set up within zonerunner so the GTM responds to DNS requests for test.com. Test.com is a site which is hosted at an external company so we don't need any of the GTM's intelligent dns features such as Wide-IP;'s, pools, virtuaL servers etc. All the GTM needs to do is respond to dns queries for test.com and return the address of the external hosting company.

 

 

For whatever reason a predicessor of mine has set-up a wide-ip which contains 1pool and 1 virtual server for test.com. This is all completley pointless because we don't host test.com there is no virtual server set up on the LTM's for the GTM's to monitor.

 

 

 

I need to remove the Wide-Ip, Pool and virtual server for test.com (see previous post) on the GTM's as its causing issues. if I do this will the GTM still responds to dns queries for test.com?

 

 

Many Thanks

 

Darren

 

 

 

 

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  • Dazzla_20011's avatar
    Dazzla_20011
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    Apr 18, 2011
    I've looked in to this further and believe that if I remove the wideip and pool for test.com whilst having a zonerunner (BIND) entry this will allow the GTM to respond using standard DNS rather than wideip information. The caveat is that the listener for DNS queries must be a self IP address on the GTM which it is.