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F5 CONFIGURING BIG-IP DNS (FORMERLY GTM) V14.1

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F5 CONFIGURING BIG-IP DNS (FORMERLY GTM) V14.1

Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisite:

There are no F5-technology-specific prerequisites for this course. However, completion of Administering BIG-IP would be very helpful for students with limited BIG-IP administration and configuration experience.

Course Description:

This course gives networking professionals a functional understanding of the BIG-IP DNS system as it is commonly used. The course covers installation, configuration, and management of the BIG-IP DNS system, and includes a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on labs.

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of BIG-IP DNS systems.

Course Outline:

BIG-IP initial setup (licensing, provisioning, and network configuration)

  • Overview of the Domain Name System and DNS resolution flow through BIG-IP DNS
  • Configuring DNS listeners
  • Accelerating DNS resolution with DNS Express, DNS cache, and DNS server load balancing
  • Intelligent DNS resolution with wide IPs and wide IP pools
  • Using probes and metrics to assist the intelligent DNS resolution process
  • Intelligent DNS load balancing methods
  • Monitoring intelligent DNS resources
  • Logging GSLB load-balancing decisions
  • Using DNSSEC
  • Integrating iRules in the DNS resolution process
  • Managing BIG-IP DNS sync groups