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ADC-41 C08-GSLB Concept
ADC-41 C08-GSLB Concept
(GSLB) Concepts
Section 7
Disadvantages
Requires changes to DNS server configuration
Add Sub-domain to existing DNS for ACOS
Add ACOS “proxy ip” as NS records
Add ACOS “proxy ip” as A records
CNAME existing records to sub-domain
Requires second DNS request by client
Disadvantages
Requires changes to DNS server IP address, or change in registered NS server IP address
Can not be implemented without downtime
Customer has to own and run their own DNS servers
Note – To configure Proxy mode, follow standard SLB procedures (Servers, Service
Groups, VIP, etc.) that utilize “external” DNS servers and enable it for GSLB when
configuring the virtual port
Note 2 – GSLB Policies will be covered in another module
To configure Proxy Mode, create Servers for the actual (external) DNS servers, place
them in a Service Group and apply to the Virtual Port
The Service IP can also have health checks assigned and, if needed, an External IP
allowing a service IP that has an internal IP address to be reached from outside the
internal network
In the above example, the zone name is “a10class.com”, the service is HTTP with the
name “www.” Clients would then query www.a10class.com when connecting to the VIP
At the Service level of the configuration, additional dns records such as C-NAME, mx,
and NS can be created
The GSLB controller collects following information from the site AX load balancers
Virtual IP addresses & active servers
aRDT (active-Round Delay Time)
Site session capacity statistics
Connection load
Number of active sessions
For redundancy, multiple controllers can be enabled and placed in a controller group
which can automatically synchronize GSLB configurations and service IP status among
multiple GSLB controllers for a GSLB zone
Enabling the protocol on devices in other sites in the GSLB configuration is optional, but
is required for in order to take advantage of certain policy options and default health
checks. A10 recommends enabling the GSLB protocol on all devices
gslb protocol enable device
Note - For more information on Controller Groups see the GSLB configuration guide