Configure the F5 BIG-IP as an Explicit Forward Web Proxy Using LTM
In a previous article, I provided a guide on using F5's Access Policy Manager (APM) and Secure Web Gateway (SWG) to provide forward web proxy services. While that guide was for organizations that are...
Updated Dec 08, 2022
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Steve_Lyons
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Steve_Lyons
May 02, 2020Ret. Employee
@Ajit, do you have an external self IP configured that allows access to the external internet or whatever you are using as a DNS resolver? You can also run ip route get <server ip address> to determine which IP address is being used to communicate with the DNS resolver.
Honestly this is the first time I am seeing any of these comments so if it is related to internal websites, you should probably be bypassing any type of proxy for internal addresses. If not, let me know and we can figure out how to resolve it.