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BIND Forwarder Server List

rob_carr
Cirrostratus
Cirrostratus

If the DNS Lookup Server List is used to allow the BIG-IP to resolve FQDNs used for nodes and other network objects, what is the BIND Forwarder Server List used for? A recent manual say that the list 'provides DNS resolution for servers and other equipment load-balanced by the BIG-IP system (for the server that the BIG-IP system uses for DNS proxy services)', but it still isn't clear to me what this really means. How do clients consume this DNS proxy capability? Is this related to the DNS Relay Proxy component of the edge client?

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Leslie_Hubertus
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey @rob_carr - I thought I'd replied to this twice, but managed to not actually hit Reply or something. Anyway, good to see you around again - I've send this link to some colleagues for them to weigh in since nobody has answered you yet. 

JRahm
Community Manager
Community Manager

asking around @rob_carr, will let you know if I hear anything.

I'm still poking around to find you an answer as well. Sorry for the delay, @rob_carr!

J-H_Johansen
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus

@Leslie_Hubertus did you find out?

MichaelN
F5 Employee
F5 Employee

Hi Rob, a good explaination was done in the past here https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/replacing-a-dns-server-with-f5-big-ip-dns/ta-p/287030

Let me know, if you have further questions.
Thanks,
Michael

J-H_Johansen
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus

Hi @MichaelN 

I believe the question @rob_carr was asking was regarding the system settings (Configuration/Device/DNS) where you can configure "DNS lookup server list" and "BIND forwarder server list".
The article you linked to contains information on how to configure the DNS module and I can't any info here on the systems settings. Can you give a real world example of when the BIND forwarder will be used instead of the DNS lookup?

PS: It's a good article but all the images fails to load. 

Hey @J-H_Johansen - while @MichaelN will need to be the one to reply to your question, I wanted to drop in to say that me and @LiefZimmerman just took a look, and unfortunately can't restore those images (they seem to have been lost in a migration, the author is no longer with F5, and the Wayback Machine wasn't able to provide any help). Apologies for the inconvenience!