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FQDN nodes in non-default route domains

Problem this snippet solves: Currently there is no support for FQDN nodes in non-default route domains as per Article. With recent increase in cloud deployment, most of the time there is a requireme...
Updated Jun 28, 2024
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application delivery
iRules
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Manu_Nair
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Feb 22, 2022

Thanks for this. i am not an irule expert, but i am trying to understand the code. 

set host [RESOLV::lookup @dns_53 "server.example.com"] -> So you are resolving the FQDN
set ip [getfield $host " " 1] -> Extracting the hostname
node [lindex $ip 0]%  -> I couldn get this one though!!, what it does.

 

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    spalande
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    Jun 28, 2024

    There was a typo. Please check the correction above. It basically send the connection to node adding required route domain and port