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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.
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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.
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Steve_Lyons
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Oct 25, 2018

Hopefully these screenshots help clarify.

 

First I configured google DNS in the BIND forwarder server list and I am unable to resolve. I then configured it in the DNS lookup server list and can successfully resolve.

 

Here you can see based on name of the pool I am using different configurations. First pool I have no DNS configured and when attempting to save based on fqdn pool I receive an error to configure DNS. In the 2nd pool I configured google DNS in my BIND forwarder server list and receive an error to configure DNS when trying to save a fqdn pool. Lastly, I configured google dns in my DNS server list and can successfully create an fqdn pool.

 

Hope this helps clarify! Let me know.