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Mar 08, 2020

BIg-IP DNS Listener question

Hello Folks, I'm having hard time understanding how a listener and wide IP works in the Big-IP DNS realm. Hoping to get an answer here.   I understand that Listener on Big-IP DNS listens and...
  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Mar 10, 2020

    You need to delegate the zone for production.company.com from company.com

    So the zone file for company.com contains the following records:

    production.company.com NS ns1.production.company.com
    production.company.com NS ns2.production.company.com
    ns1.production.company.com A 1.1.1.1 
    ns2.production.company.com A 2.1.1.1

    So when someone queries www.production.company.com, they will send a NS query to a .com nameserver for company.com, and get a reply.

    They then send a NS query to the company.com nameserver asking for a production.company.com nameserver.

    The company.com nameserver replies that an NS record for production.company.com is at ns1.production.company.com, and to help you out, the A record for ns1.production.company.com is 1.1.1.1.

    The client then sends a www.production.company.com A record request to 1.1.1.1 which resolves the WideIP for 1.1.1.1.

    This is a standard DNS zone delegation, and your DNS provider or manager should be able to set this up without any difficulty at all.