What does a Wide IP Zone look like

Hi juwusuo,

 

 

A Wide IP in GTM doesn't have a "zone" in the sense that BIND would. GTM runs on top of BIND and answers DNS requests dynamically. The Wide IP is an FQDN that has a pool associated with it that contains members that are balanced or preferentially selected based on the pool's configuration. If you have access to GTM, you can look at the syntax of the wideip.conf file by SSHing to the GTM and viewing /config/gtm/wideip.conf. Does this help?

 

 

-George

thanks George for the quick response .. I've read some deployment guides and basically understandthe mechanism you mentioned.. However, as I don't have access to a real thing (GTM), some part still not very sure :-). So you mean if I create a Wide IP, www.wip.example.com, it would not be a zone created, wip.example.com, with a physical/electronic zone file? However, if I do a zone transfer, what should be in that zone? Would there be an A record mapping to the load balanced IP, besides the SOA, NS, and server A record (GTM listener IP)? Heard a lot about the wideip.conf file, if a wide IP www.wip.example.com created, what a typical wideip.conf would look like then? Thanks again George!

Before you create www.wip.example.com, make sure you have example.com created in zonerunner. If you don't create this, i think it will throw it under a zone called com. As long as example.com already exists, it will show up as a standard A record in that zone. They are created as files in standard bind fashion on the file system.