Trying to add F5 name server to MS DNS and getting errors

Hi gymmbo, can you clarify what you mean by associating GTM to your MS DNS? Do you mean that you are trying to transfer your DNS zone to GTM for the purpose of using DNS Express, for example?

Thanks for the quick reply. My director has set up three non-microsoft name records that the IP is associated with our GTMs. As it has been explained to me he is trying to transfer one of our DNS zones to the GTM in addition to our DCs (w/ DNS). We current are leveraging three different zones and naturally the DCs we have propagate between the three but we are not able to even get the record validated.

It sounds like you have 3 Wide IPs set up on the GTM, which will also answer requests for records in the zone you wish to transfer. Have you configured the zone in MS DNS to allow transfers to the self-IP address of the GTM BIG-IP?

I believe that is part of the issue we are having. In MS DNS when I try to add the FQDN of the name server it resolves but I get the error "an unknown error occurred trying to validate".

If you are trying to transfer a zone to GTM, then you just need to add the GTM self-IP address as an allowed server for zone transfers in MS DNS. Which FQDN are you trying to add, and where?

That is the problem I am having, adding the IP or FQDN as an allowed server. The IP and name are pingable. I am trying to add the record in the Name Servers tab of DNS and it is something like this... ns1.domain.com that resolves to 192.168.1.10 and is a standard IP in our scheme. When the name resolves that is when I get the validation error.

You should be adding this to the Zone Transfers tab. The MS DNS server is still authoritative for the zone, so it doesn't need the GTM address added as a name server.

It is in there but again, the An unknown error occurred trying while validating the server with the big red circle with an X in the middle. Very unhappy. The name and IP are also in the Reverse Lookup Zone.