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IS_38885
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Jan 20, 2009

Problems getting a simple name resolution "example" Irule to work

Hi,     I am trying to implement name resolution inside an iRule and I cannot get to work the simple example I find in the knowledge base.     The example is the following:  ...
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Jan 22, 2009
It works now.

 

 

It looks that then doing a name resolution inside an irule, it uses the local named daemon (following the default configuration of the tmm_base.tcl).

 

 

The problem is that the named daemon is configured to deny any recursive requests. I edited the named.conf to enable it and after restarting the service the iRule worked.

 

 

That puzzled me in the first place is the fact that nslookup was working from the console. Now I understand that the iRule uses by default the local named instead of the configured name servers (/etc/resolv.conf).