F5 and DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

We implement it so that we can do maintenance and/or lease-replacements 
on our servers transparently and without having to change anything at 
the registrar (which can be a pain when you host thousands of domains).

- Kevin

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I believe you can so long as you have a secondary NIC in each to do the
> transfers from master to slave.
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> However to everything on the VIP it's going to look like one server.
> You'd have to make sure you only used the one VIP in your Registrars'
> records.
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> However since DNS is designed to have two servers there doesn't seem to
> be much reason to do the Big-IP load balance and failover in the first
> place just for DNS.   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Sangoi, Nehal (GE Supply, consultant)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:11 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: F5 and DNS
>
> Hi All
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> Can I still have the Master/Slave configuration of DNS on servers when
> they serve through a VIP set on Big-IP in load balance and failover
> mode?
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> Thanks
> Nehal
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