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F5 BIG-IP DNS

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What is F5 BIG-IP DNS?

F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.

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F5 BIG-IP DNS Reviews

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Pros

  • Global traffic distribution for high availability
  • Effective load balancing across data centers
  • Resiliency and performance in active-active configurations

F5 BIG-IP DNS Review

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Amber Usry
IT Systems Engineer Sr. in Information Technology at Progressive (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP DNS for our gtm needs throughout the company, for internal and external traffic.

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Ease of upgrade
  • Logging

Cons

  • GUI disablement bug

Return on Investment

  • Serves 40k employees and our customers

Usability

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Splunk Enterprise

F5 BIG-IP DNS Review

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Today we use it for Global Availability and HA across our multiple cloud regions and equinix facilities both internally and externally.

Pros

  • Being able to create topology load balancing is very easy and straightforward
  • It works really well to detect which region or state you are in to be able to load balance to the closest location

Cons

  • We struggle with the fact that F5 BIG-IP DNS uses the LDNS. Today we use infoblox and we are able to tag ECS data so that the F5 can see the true source of the client but it would be cool if somehow that would work without having to forward.
  • One thing that I also struggle with is the time stamps and adding new GTMS into the cluster. I have wiped out my deployment before because the timestamps we're wrong.

Return on Investment

  • It has created an easy environment for us to onramp and load balance based on region into our GCP instances. This provides a faster experience for our customers increasing sales.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Other Software Used

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)

F5 BIG-IP DNS Review

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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP DNS for DNS resolutions. We used to have Infoblox for DNS queries and with Infoblox as our environment grew, there were resource issues. We had users complaining about DNS queries taking lot of time. With Infoblox, service used to restart nightly at 10pm. When we moved to F5 BIG-IP DNS, nightly restart was addressed.

Pros

  • DNS Caching
  • DNS Response Time
  • Stability

Cons

  • Instead of purchasing separate DNS appliance, would like to see a containerized LTM with DNS

Return on Investment

  • Service restart was addressed which we had with previous DNS solution

Usability

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Unify GTM

F5 BIG-IP DNS Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps us complete a lot of the specific tasks, we have low balance surgeries you guys offer and stuff like that as well, as well as web application firewalls. It helps us with our daily tasks and things like that.

Pros

  • I would say the load balancers. I think the load balancer service is pretty good.

Cons

  • I don't have any areas of improvement. I'm pretty satisfied with the product so far.

Return on Investment

  • Helps us be more efficient, so I analyze data a lot. A lot quicker

Usability

Great product to provide global high availability

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 BIG-IP DNS for load balancing among availability zones and data centers. This allows us to have global high availability.

Pros

  • Global high availability
  • Health monitoring

Cons

  • Scalability
  • Single threaded control plane

Return on Investment

  • We are able to take entire availability zones down for maintenance
  • We have higher availability for critical applications
  • Fail over is slow compared to reverse proxy load balancing due to the nature of DNS

Usability

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