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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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.