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Keith_Richards_
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratushost name based management
We have a number of complex test environments that stage from dev through to production. Each environment has LTMs that are all running (theoretically) the same configuration but with different IP add...
Hi Keith--
No lookups are performed @ load time.
The GUI performs the name lookup for you and inserts the response into the config file when the pool is created or the new member added. (Lookup uses the local LTM hosts file or resolver, not the browser's.)
That gives you the ability to enter hostnames rather than IPs while still creating a configuration file that is ready to load.
Which is a Very Good Thing: It prevents a local DNS outage from disabling your entire configuration. And imagine how long it would take to load a config with hundreds of servers, each of which requires a lookup... esp since the config has to load on failover.
HTH
/deb
