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F5_324021
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Sep 24, 2017
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GTM Design For External DNS Queries

Hello,   I'm a little bit confused here as I'm setting up my upcoming project design which includes 2 boxes with GTM and LTM modules each, and each box will be located in a site (SITE A, SITEB),G...
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    F5_324021
    Oct 09, 2017

    Hello,

     

    what about the A record ip address of the Ns gtm1 is it the ip address of the listener configured on the GTM or is it the self ip address of the GTM?

     

    Also i have another question when doing the same delegation from the external DNS (Internet side) the delegation configuration will be as you stated the following:-

     

    ns1.gtm.example.com A X.X.X.X wip.example.com NS ns1.gtm.example.com

     

    Here the X.X.X.X Ip address will be the piblic ip address of the GTM to be natted on the firewall or what?regardless if its the listener or the self ip of the GTM.

     

    Hope you can help me

     

    Thank you..

     

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Kevin_K_51432
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Greetings,

The flow looks like this: 
Internet
|
Firewall
| |
| |<------>GTM
|
|<------>LTM

The GTM server object's Address is the Firewall IP address (basic TCP connectivity), while the Translation IP address is the internal LTM IP address (this address is learned via iquery).

K14707: Configuring BIG-IP DNS server objects for BIG-IP devices that reside behind a firewall NAT

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14707

Kevin

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Sep 25, 2017

Hello Kevim,

 

Seems split DNS configuration do the job , however from the DNS server even the Local DNS or the external DNS what should be done from that side to forward all DNS queries to the GTM.

 

Thank you..