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CAshtones_35797
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Apr 08, 2018

Can I use F5 to do state-full load balancing of Microsoft DNS Servers?

Can you please resolve this as I would like to post the following message, thanks very much   Hello, can someone kindly help me with the following question, thanks I am not a network or F5 person ...
BIG-IP
BIG-IP DNS
security
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Hannes_Rapp
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Apr 08, 2018

What you've described is all doable with BigIP LTM. This includes e-mail alerting in case of Pool Member status changes.

 

For a performance gain, you should also look into Transparent DNS caching feature. This is available in DNS module. (Ref Doc - section 2)

 

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    CAshtones_35797
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    Apr 08, 2018

    Thanks very much for taking the time to reply Hannes, much appreciated

     

    CAshtones