Disable DNS Express to allow recursion of a delegated sub-domain

Problem this snippet solves: If you are using GTM to act both a authoritative slave with DNS Express and as a recursive cache, recursion will not work if a request is made for a delegated sub-domain...
Published May 25, 2016
Version 1.0
application delivery
BIG-IP DNS
devops
dns express
dnsx
irule
iRules
recursive dns
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Patricia_Gonzal
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Sep 21, 2016

Ok, we got the irule working with these modifications.

when DNS_REQUEST {

  set rrr [DNS::query dnsx [DNS::question name] [DNS::question type]]

  set rname [lindex $rrr 0]
  set rtype [DNS::type [lindex $rrr 1]]

  log local0.debug "client=[IP::client_addr] name=$rname type=$rtype"

  if { $rname equals "" && $rtype equals "NS"} {

    log local0.debug "ns record detected"
    DNS::disable dnsx

  } elseif { [IP::addr [IP::client_addr] equals 192.168.0.0/24] } {

      pool /Common/ServerResolver
      log local0.debug "ServerResolver"
      return

  } else {

      pool /Common/UserResolver
      log local0.debug "UserResolver"
      return

  }


}