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Jul 17, 2008

GTM iRule defining external DNS server

Hi everybody,     I am facing the following problem. I would like to force the GTM to query an internal (accessible only by the BIG-IP on the private side) DNS server if the DNS record cann...
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Jul 21, 2008

Posted By citizen_elah on 07/21/2008 6:51 AM

 

 

The forwarders in the named options section are your name servers, not the zones. You can forward by zone instead of globally. This must be setup in each zone's configuration:

 

 

 

 

I am not sure whether I understood you correctly and yes, as you can see, I am not a DNS expert. Would you mind telling me what should be entered in the company.com zone and named.conf options fields to make it work so that queries for a company.com domain will be forwarded to the internal y.y.y.y DNS server for resolution? As I have mentioned earlier, I would like to configure the forwarding behavior only for the particular domain, unlike the author of this thread.

 

 

Thanks