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F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP DNS: Domain Name System
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F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP DNS: Domain Name System Introduction:
Welcome to the F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP DNS: Domain Name System course. This program is tailored for system and network administrators responsible for effectively configuring and managing the BIG-IP DNS system to ensure efficient Domain Name System (DNS) resolution.
Throughout this course, you will gain in-depth knowledge and practical skills to optimize the performance and security of your network’s DNS services using the BIG-IP system. By focusing on real-world scenarios and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to handle high-volume DNS queries, mitigate DNS-based DDoS attacks, and ensure high availability of your DNS services.
As we dive deeper, the course will cover critical aspects of DNS architecture and its integration with BIG-IP systems.
You’ll learn how to configure BIG-IP DNS to intelligently distribute DNS requests, implement advanced features like DNS caching and load balancing, and understand how BIG-IP DNS can be used to support complex, multi-cloud environments. This course also emphasizes best practices in DNS security, providing you with the skills to secure your DNS infrastructure against evolving threats.
Upon completion, you will be well-equipped with the expertise to enhance your organization’s DNS infrastructure’s efficiency, reliability, and security, leveraging the full potential of F5 Networks’ BIG-IP DNS solutions.
Course Overview
- 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
- Final configuration projects
Prerequisites
- Administering BIG-IP
- TCP/IP Addressing and Routing
- WAN/LAN Elements
- Data Center Server Redundancy Concepts
Audience
- This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for the installation, setup, configuration, and administration of BIG-IP DNS systems.
F5 Networks Configuring BIG-IP DNS: Domain Name System Outline
Setting Up the BIG-IP System
- Introducing the BIG-IP System
- Initial Setup of the BIG-IP System
- Archiving the BIG-IP Configuration
- Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools
- Provisioning the BIG-IP System and Confirming Network Configuration
Introducing the Domain Name System (DNS) and BIG-IP DNS
- Understanding the Domain Name System (DNS)
- Reviewing the Name Resolution Process
- Implementing BIG-IP DNS
- Using DNS Resolution Diagnostic Tools
Accelerating DNS Resolution
- Introducing DNS Resolution with BIG-IP DNS
- BIG-IP DNS Resolution Decision Flow
- Configuring BIG-IP DNS Listeners
- Resolving DNS Queries in the Labs (Lab Zone Records)
- Load Balancing Queries to a DNS Server Pool
- Accelerating DNS Resolution with DNS Cache
- Accelerating DNS Resolution with DNS Express
- Introducing Wide IPs
- Using Other Resolution Methods with BIG-IP DNS
- Integrating BIG-IP DNS into Existing DNS Environments
Implementing Intelligent DNS Resolutions
- Introducing Intelligent DNS Resolution
- Identifying Physical Network Components
- Identifying Logical Network Components
- Collecting Metrics for Intelligent Resolution
- Configuring Data Centers
- Configuring a BIG-IP DNS System as a Server
- Configuring a BIG-IP LTM System as a Server
- Establishing iQuery Communication between BIG-IP Systems
- Configuring a Non-F5 Server
- Defining Links and Routers
- Configuring Wide IP Pools
- Configuring Wide IPs
- Managing Object Status
- Using the Traffic Management Shell (TMSH)
Using LDNS Probes and Metrics
- Introducing LDNS Probes and Metrics
- Types of LDNS Probes
- Excluding an LDNS from Probing
- Configuring Probe Metrics Collection
Load Balancing Intelligent DNS Resolution
- Introducing Load Balancing on BIG-IP DNS
- Using Static Load Balancing Methods (Round Robin, Ratio, Global Availability, Static Persist, and Others)
- Using Dynamic Load Balancing Methods (Round Trip Time, Completion Rate, CPU, Hops, Least Connections, and Others)
- Using Quality of Service Load Balancing
- Persisting DNS Query Responses
- Configuring GSLB Load Balancing Decision Logs
- Using Manual Resume
- Using Topology Load Balancing
Monitoring Intelligent DNS Resources
- Exploring Monitors
- Configuring Monitors
- Assigning Monitors to Resources
- Monitoring Best Practices
Advanced BIG-IP DNS Topics
- Implementing DNSSEC
- Setting Limits for Resource Availability
- Using iRules with Wide IPs
- Introducing Other Wide IP Types
- Implementing BIG-IP DNS Sync Groups
Final Configuration Projects
$2310.00
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2 Days Course |