Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP AFM
- 14.1.2, 14.1.0
Filtering DNS Packets
Overview: Filtering DNS traffic
With a DNS security profile, you can filter DNS to allow or deny specific DNS query types, and to deny specific DNS OpCodes. The DNS security profile is attached to, and works with, a local traffic DNS profile to configure a range of DNS settings for a virtual server. Use DNS protocol filtering:
- To filter DNS query types or header OpCodes that are not necessary or relevant in your configuration, or that you do not want your DNS servers to handle.
- As a remediation tool to drop packets of a specific query type, if a DoS Protection Profile identifies anomalous DNS activity with that query type.
Task list
Filtering DNS traffic with a DNS security profile
In this task, you create a DNS security profile and configure DNS security settings at the same time. However, you can also configure settings in a DNS security profile that already exists.