BIG-IP DNS Resource Record Types: Architecture, Design and Configuration
Welcome to my first article on DevCentral! This article starts a series about BIG-IP DNS (the artist formerly known as GTM). This article and accompanying videos take a look at the support for ...
Published Oct 31, 2019
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NimbostratusI thought 4353 was F5 in ASCII. But I just looked it up to confirm, and that's not actually the case, unless they are secretly +5.
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EmployeeTim,
Thank you for playing!! You have to know some of F5's product history to answer the question.
Before there was BIG-IP DNS, there was BIG-IP GTM. Before there was BIG-IP GTM, it was called 3DNS in 4.x. This was the birth of what became the DNS module. The port is a holdover from that legacy.
If you break the port down it answers what process it serves!
4-3-DNS and the port for DNS is 53. Mash it together and you get:
4-3-53 or port 4353.
And now you know!