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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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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.

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.

Ret. Employee

Oct 26, 2018

So, yes these boxes can be an all in one DNS solution with nothing more. You don't need to buy anything else. It's all about your use case. So, my typical use case is completely different from yours as my customers MUST point to a specific server for actual resolution. AD Integrated DNS > F5 Recursive DNS > Required Recursive > Internet. Now that I think it's defined, you want recursion and the BIG-IP to do all name resolution for you, the BIG-IP will use root hints to do the lookup. Give me a sec and I will send you what that looks like.