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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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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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F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.
The most common users of F5 BIG-IP DNS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 22, 2024
For Internal use only
For DNS service
- Stable
- Ability for customisation
- DDoS Protection
- In order to be able to provide DNS service, hope to see more DNS specific features. So far it still can be achieved via iRules, however, it still consumes resources
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP DNS for faster and secure application delivery
F5 BIG-IP DNS is the perfect solution to efficiently stop DNS-related attacks and distribute user traffic intelligently to multiple service-consumption points. With its tight integration with the local traffic management capabilities of BIG-IP LTM, it becomes super easy to direct excess traffic during peak usage periods to places such as a pay-as-you-go cloud (cloud bursting) so that user experience can always remain at its best! With its many implementation options, such as Intelligent DNS resolution (GSLB with WideIP), and Accelerated DNS resolution (DNS Express for Authoritative Answers, hardware-accelerated DNSSec, LDNS caching resolver) it offers flexibility and simplicity to integrate performance and security to any DNS environment.
- 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.
February 13, 2024
F5 BIG-IP DNS: Best in class DNS
I use F5 BIG-IP DNS when consolidating all DNS records for many merged companies into one location for complete management and security.
- 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
F5 BIG-IP DNS provides intelligent DNS availability to enterprise applications. There are several critical applications that utilize this service and are able to assist with global availability and reduncancy. In addition to local traffic manager virtual servers, we also use non-F5 destination servers to provide this same level of redundancy. Thank you.
- topology services
- global availability
- round robin
- additional monitoring features
February 13, 2024
You have got to check out and implement F5 BIG-IP DNS for your geo Redundant Solution
Geo Redundancy is vital in today's world and F5 BIG-IP DNS has been a Key component for our Mission Critical Communications. Easy, Fast and most importantly, reliable
- DNS synchronization across nodes
- DNS Resolution
- Integration with External DNS Server Providers
- recommend values on DNS records
February 10, 2024
F5 BIG-IP DNS is an Awesome Product
F5 BIG-IP DNS logs are not visible in the dashboard.
- zone transfer
- load balancer
- clearing DNS cache
- DNS zone overview
February 09, 2024
F5 BIG-IP DNS is Awesome
We use F5 BIG-IP DNS for Internal and External GSLB, our current solution is implemented On-Prem and In the Cloud. F5 BIG-IP DNS has enabled us to have active/active applications across multiple data centers, we have created specific delegations zones that process the queries for particular scenarios. A normal set up will be to use a CNAME from our primary Zone to point to the GSLB Authoritative Zone
- 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
We use the appliance to determine network visibility between the two data centers. We have two data centers in Martinsburg and Memphis, Tennessee that we have traffic go through that provides support for our IRS customers so that it provides a domain name service, meaning a network visibility in between the two data centers.
- 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.
May 03, 2023
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- ease of use
- Faster response when tickets are opened for support