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Shawn_Salyers_8
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Mar 29, 2010

iRule Redirect and mask destination URL

Hello all, I am somewhat new to the F5 and have been doing a bit of searching and have come up with some similar scenarios which leads me to believe that what I am trying to accomplish is possible. W...
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hoolio
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Apr 06, 2010
Can you hardcode the IP address(es) that the external domain resolves to? Or do you need to do a DNS lookup of the hostname? If the former, you can configure the IP address:port combinations in the pool. If the latter, you can use NAME::lookup in pre-10.1 or RESOLV::loookup in 10.1+ to resolve the hostname. For NAME::lookup, I can post an anonymized iRule example to do a look up every X seconds in the next couple of days.

 

 

Aaron