Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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JG's avatar
JG
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Feb 09, 2015

Pool members with fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs): How does this work?

From release notes of v11.6.0 (on new features):   Populate pools by FQDN This release includes the ability to configure a BIG-IP system with nodes and pool members that are identified with fully...
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Brad_Parker_139
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Feb 10, 2015

The FQDN node list will auto populate all the nodes that are returned by the DNS query; they are called ephemeral nodes. You need to make sure your DNS server is set to return all A records for this to occur.