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dstogsdill_2492
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Nov 04, 2012

GTM iRule - cname

Hi all,   I'm trying to test a simple iRule to return a cname for a wide IP. I looked at the cname Wiiki on dev central and my syntax looks correct, however, it is not returning the cname respons...
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Nov 05, 2012
The ultimate goal is to provide an ANAME like service, which is to allow CNAME like behavior for root zone queries. ANAMES are not an RFC standard so I may be looking at this all wrong but since I'm testing I want to make sure I'm using the correct syntax and getting a proper return value. Why? This is needed to host Domains using Amazon Web Services.

 

 

Since I'm not getting the same returned values as I would when querying a Bind CNAME I'm assuming i'm either using the CNAME method incorrectly or i'm hitting a bug as you suggested. I'm running version 11.1 HF4, although, i'm planning an upgrade to 11.2 in early December.

 

 

What i'm uncertain about is if I can even return a CNAME in response to a root zone query which is why i'm testing in a lab. If this is not possible I may need to use a combination of a perl script and iFile.

 

 

BTW, at this point i'm testing with host names NOT root zones. I figured I need to get a valid reply before testing with root zones.