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Implementing Client Subnet in DNS Requests

Update 2018-07-14: Starting with BIG-IP DNS 14.0 Client Subnet is available as a checkbox feature: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/using-client-subnet-in-dns-requests-31948 Original Article: ...
Published Jun 16, 2015
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BIG-IP DNS
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Nov 08, 2017

Hi,

 

Could you (or anyone) please explain how this links to the GTM topology? Looking at the irule, I see it doing a whereis on the ECS subnet and logging the response. I fail to see how GTM then knows how to use this information for its topology load balancing. puzzled.

 

Bert

 

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