Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP DNS
- 13.1.1, 13.1.0
Overview: Configuring a TTL in a DNS NoError Response
You can configure BIG-IP® DNS to return DNS NoError responses that include a TTL. With this configuration, local DNS servers can cache a negative response. Negative caching reduces both the response time for negative DNS responses and the number of messages that must be sent between resolvers and local DNS servers.
About SOA records and negative caching
A start of authority SOA record contains a TTL by which a local DNS server can be configured to cache a DNS NoError response to an IPv6 query.
Task summary
You can configure DNS to provide a negative caching TTL for a domain name by performing these specific tasks.
Creating a pool
Creating a wide IP that provides for negative caching
Implementation result
You now have an implementation in which BIG-IP® DNS returns a TTL in a DNS NoError response for a web site represented by a wide IP in the DNS configuration.