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Francois_Dumais
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Mar 04, 2014

Is it possible to have GTM enabled on F5 LTM boxes arranged in an active-standby redundancy mode?

I read that having GTM enabled on an F5 LTM active-standby setup could cause problems in relation with DNS delegation. Is it possible to configure the setup in such a way as to avoid problems? We n...
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Cory_50405
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Mar 04, 2014
I think what is meant by DNS delegation issues is that typically a parent zone will be configured with NS records to each authoritative name server at the child level. So there would be an NS record for each GTM. If one of these GTMs was active and one standby, half of the queries (theoretically) would be coming to the standby GTM.