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MB1
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Oct 21, 2019

Help with securing self ip's and forwarding virtual server for a DMZ server using non-http

I have external DNS servers on private IP's in a DMZ vlan. Normally, for servers behind the F5 we just use Automap and the servers default gateway points at the Firewall.   However, we want to se...
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Mandragor
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Oct 30, 2019

Port Lockdown only handles traffic destined directly to the self IP, not for traffic which it would forward.

 

If you're not using a remote logging destination and able to see your traffic there you can simply use tcpdump from your BIG-IP device and filter on traffic from your DNS server to see which virtual server it is going through.

Something along the lines

tcpdump -i 0.0 -nn host <IP-address of DNS-server>

at the end of the line you should see something along the lines of

in slot1/tmm0 lis=/Common/your_forwarding_vs