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Manual : BIG-IP DNS Services: Implementations

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Original Publication Date: 11/26/2018
Updated Date: 08/17/2023

Configuring DNS Express

What is DNS Express?

Configuring DNS Express to answer DNS queries

Task summary for configuring DNS Express to answer queries for a zone

Configuring DNS Express to answer zone transfer requests

Task summary to configure BIG-IP system to respond to zone transfer requests

Configuring Rapid Response to Mitigate DNS Flood Attacks

Overview: Configuring DNS Rapid Response

About configuring DNS Rapid Response

Configuring Protocol Validation and Response Cache

Overview: Configuring Protocol Validation and Response Cache

Task summary for configuring protocol validation and response cache

Configuring a DNS Zone Proxy

Overview: Configuring a DNS zone proxy

Task summary for configuring DNS zone proxy

Configuring BIG-IP to Load Balance Zone Transfer Requests to a Pool of DNS Servers

Overview: Configuring BIG-IP to load balance zone transfer requests to a pool of DNS servers

Task summary for configuring DNS proxy zone transfer requests

Configuring DNSSEC

Introducing DNSSEC

About configuring basic DNSSEC

About configuring DNSSEC with an external HSM

Configuring DNSSEC with an internal HSM

About DNSSEC signing of zone transfers

Task summary for signing zone transfers using DNSSEC keys

Troubleshooting DNSSEC on the BIG-IP system

Configuring DNS Caching

Overview: Using caching to improve DNS performance

Configuring DNS cache global settings

Overview: Caching responses from external resolvers

Overview: Resolving queries and caching responses

Overview: Resolving queries and caching validated responses

Overview: Resolving queries for local zones with authoritative responses

Overview: Forwarding specific DNS queries to specific nameservers

Adding forward zones to a DNS cache

Deleting forward zones from a DNS cache

Changing the nameservers associated with a forward zone

Viewing statistics about DNS cache forward zones

Overview: Forwarding specific DNS queries to a pool of DNS servers

Overview: Customizing a DNS cache

Using a DNS cache sizing formula to tune DNS cache

About the DNS cache sizing formula

Goals for analyzing results when using the DNS cache sizing formula

Recommendations for the nameserver and message/RRset cache

Configuring DNS Response Policy Zones

Overview: DNS response policy zones and the BIG-IP system

About creating an RPZ using ZoneRunner

About configuring the BIG-IP system to use an RPZ as a DNS firewall

About configuring the BIG-IP system as an RPZ distribution point

Configuring DNS64

Overview: Configuring DNS64

Implementation result

Configuring IP Anycast (Route Health Injection)

Overview: Configuring IP Anycast (Route Health Injection)

Implementation result

Configuring Remote High-Speed DNS Logging

Overview: Configuring remote high-speed DNS logging

Setting Up and Viewing DNS Statistics

Overview: Setting up and viewing DNS statistics

Implementation result

Using ZoneRunner to Configure DNS Zones

About ZoneRunner

Troubleshooting a BIG-IP System with a Rate-Limited License

About BIG-IP DNS and DNS rate-limited license statistics