LTM for load balance DNS queries with real IP addresses

Hi Aantat 

There are several ways to get the actual ip in backend. but in your case as its a udp/tcp traffic we have do like below

To ensure that the DNS servers see the real client IP addresses instead of the LTM’s IP address, you can use SNAT (Source Network Address Translation) selectively or disable it depending on your requirements. Here are the potential approaches and their configurations:

By default, the LTM may translate the source IP address of incoming requests to its self-IP if SNAT is enabled. You can disable SNAT to preserve the original client IP.

Steps:
Go to the virtual server configuration in the BIG-IP GUI.
Under Configuration, set SNAT Pool to None.
Ensure the DNS servers' default gateway is set to the LTM's self-IP in the same VLAN or subnet.

Considerations:
This method requires the DNS servers to route responses back through the LTM. If the DNS servers use a different default gateway, the connection will break(Please note this).

2. LTM to load balance requests across multiple internal DNS servers. -  for this you only need LTM license. If you need to load balancer servers in different DC and if you need configure a fqdn in F5- u need a GTM license (You can license in same or different VM).

BR
Aswin