Lightboard Lessons: F5 BIG-IP DNS (GTM) iQuery Protocol Overview

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I introduce iQuery, the F5 proprietary protocol utilized by BIG-IP DNS to exchange system configuration with other BIG-IP DNS systems and performance metrics wi...
Published Aug 09, 2017
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Nov 26, 2018

I don't know specifically why that is the case, but I imagine the protocol handshakes and messaging with CMI is a special workaround allowed by the system vs iQuery, which must be explicitly allowed. I can press for further details if it makes a difference for your security concerns, please let me know.