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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.

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 26, 2018

I have always understood that setup, but our DNS servers are very old and we were hoping F5 could handle everything and, of course, we were told that it could, you know how it goes :) So essentially we are building this from scratch and I'm hearing I need acquire additional actual DNS servers for a "recommended setup with recursion"

As for on box BIND recursion seems to work fine but it's not under any load at all. I wonder what the limitations are? We are not google, only a very small set of customers would be allowed to do recursion.