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Krisbain_248351
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Mar 21, 2018

Wide Area IP translate

Hey All, I've spend a fair number of hours trying to get to the bottom of this issue, but im pretty new to F5 so hoping you guys can help me out.   Scenario I have two datacentres (lets call th...
application delivery
BIG-IP DNS
Andy_McGrath's avatar
Andy_McGrath
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Mar 21, 2018

What is your F5 setup? You have F5 DNS and LTM on the same devices in each DC?

 

This sounds like a feature of the F5 DNS with translation addresses.

 

The idea being if a query comes from within a Data Centre then the real IP address is returned else the translation address is returned.