Replacing a DNS Server with F5 BIG-IP DNS

First things first, you have decided to deploy F5 BIG-IP DNS to replace a BIND server after receiving notifications from your information assurance officer or your friendly LinkedIn community that ad...

Published Feb 23, 2018

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My name is Steve Lyons and I reside in Tampa, FL with my 3 children, wife and Frenchie. We live the typical Florida life of swimming, fishing, boating, and BBQ. I started my F5 journey as a customer in 2009 where I was first introduced to it as a "load balancer." I have since deployed and maintained all modules realizing the BIG-IP is so much more. I joined F5 in 2015 where I have made it a personal mission to educate as many people as I can so they too can take advantage of the tremendous potential of the BIG-IP.

Ret. Employee

My name is Steve Lyons and I reside in Tampa, FL with my 3 children, wife and Frenchie. We live the typical Florida life of swimming, fishing, boating, and BBQ. I started my F5 journey as a customer in 2009 where I was first introduced to it as a "load balancer." I have since deployed and maintained all modules realizing the BIG-IP is so much more. I joined F5 in 2015 where I have made it a personal mission to educate as many people as I can so they too can take advantage of the tremendous potential of the BIG-IP.

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Oct 17, 2018

Hi Steve, my question expands a little on the last one (with no answer)

Here is what I'm thinking the answer to the first part is. When you define a zone in DNS Express it will answer the clients, not bind. At least this is what it looks like.

My question is this:

Our DNS servers need to be fully functional as there will be people using them directly for DNS. When I disable "use BIND Server on BIG-IP" recursion no longer works and it won't answer for zones it doesn't know about. (I really hope I'm saying that correctly) Is that expected? Do I have to enable "use BIND Server on BIG-IP" for this to work?