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F5 BIG-IP DNS

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What is F5 BIG-IP DNS?

F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.

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The Truth About It from a Lead Security Engineer | F5 BIG-IP Distributed Cloud DNS
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BIG IP DNS Review | Anthony Bowie with the Internal Revenue Service Gives Pros and Cons
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What is F5 BIG-IP DNS?

F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.

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Product Details

What is F5 BIG-IP DNS?

F5® BIG-IP® DNS distributes DNS and user application requests based on business policies, data center and cloud service conditions, user location, and application performance. BIG-IP DNS can be configured as a full proxy to provide global server load balancing (GSLB) for applications and DNS across architectures, and across the globe.

The BIG-IP platform delivers DNS services with visibility, reporting, and analysis; hyperscales and secures DNS responses geographically to survive increased traffic or threats; delivers a real-time DNSSEC solution; and ensures availability of global applications in all cloud environments.

F5 BIG-IP DNS Features

  • Supported: Hyperscaled performance - Scales DNS up to 100 million responses per second (RPS) to manage rapid increases in queries
  • Supported: DNS Firewall Services - Validates queries, mitigates malicious requetss, and absorbs DDoS attacks
  • Supported: DNSSEC Protection - Protects servers from cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks with real-time DNSSEC
  • Supported: Location-based routing - Routes clients to nearest data center with geolocation-based load balancing for application and infrastructure redundancy

F5 BIG-IP DNS Video

F5 DevCentral's Jason Rahm introduces the overall strategy of BIG-IP DNS load balancing, and how it differs from BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).

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Frequently Asked Questions

F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.

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The most common users of F5 BIG-IP DNS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Rodolfo Nützmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Direct clients to the best possible app experience
  • Secure DNS infrastructure against attacks, including DDoS
  • Easily integrates into any environment
  • I'd like to see better reporting capabilities on the decision-making process for DNS resolutions. Currently there are plenty of log messages for that, but I'd like to see tighter integration into the GUI.
  • It could be an improvement to better discriminate features intended for AA vs LDNS functionality within the GUI.
Ray Burch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The easy of importing DNS records into the BIG-IP
  • The ease of searching and locating records
  • The speed of creating multiple records when you need to duplicate effort.
  • The DNS dashboards to see requests and data points.
  • Error messages when you have incorrect syntax
  • Grouping DNS domains together in segments based on function
  • AI recommendations for better security in DNS
February 09, 2024

F5 BIG-IP DNS is Awesome

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Support for Active/Active configurations across multiple Data Centers.
  • Support for Active/Standby configurations across multiple Data Centers.
  • The use of DNS Express has enable us to reduce response times by having the entries on cache.
  • DNSSEC support and logging.
  • More support documentation will be a nice to have.
  • I have not automated DNS deployments yet, but it would be nice to have ansible libraries for this module. (I have used ansible for many others).
February 09, 2024

F5 Big-IP DNS Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It pinpoints as far as from exact name as far as the domain name of that virtual servers that we have, the virtual servers that we have going between Martinsburg and Memphis and allowing our clients to have network visibility in that aspect as far as what the role of that device is.
  • I don't think there's too much, as far as things done differently. I think the appliance is very reliable and if there was one thing we would probably look for as far as to have some compatibility with another device called Infoblox, which provides almost like that same type of service as far as being able to match the different C names, A records and everything that's loaded within that Infoblox appliance.
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