GTM DNS Load balancing issue

Hello all. I'm testing out and working in a Lab Environment (using F5 VE training lab 11.5.1)I'm trying to lab out a scenario where i'm Load balancing DNS servers using a GTM. I've created a listener which is the Self-IP of my F5 VM. I've created a pool with the DNS server and created a custom monitor which monitors traffic using port 53 with my domain name "company.com" with the receive string of my DNS server. Health monitor looks good for the pool

 

I have a VIP that was created when I created the listener and it's using the listener IP as the VIP and i've opened it for port 53. For a protocol i'm using UDP. I'm allowing all VLAN's and using Auto map for source translation.

 

i'm testing using dig @1.1.1.1(vip/listner) company.com and not able to resolve.

 

When i look at traffic statistics i'm seeing traffic come IN but no traffic going OUT under statistics. In my experience with F5 LTM deployment i found that to be a SNAT/Automap misconfiguration. in this case i'm not using a SNAT pool at all. I have web servers i'm load balancing with Auto map no issue. My DNS server has access to the VIP IP no issue even though it's default gateway is that of the subnet it's located on. Any ideas or thoughts as to what i'm missing. This seems like a very basic setup and for some reason i just can't put my finger on it. TCP dump is just showing my client talking to the VIP. Not seeing anything being passed to the DNS server.

 

Thanks