DNS

Provides hyperscale and security during high query volumes and DNS DDoS attacks
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F5 BIG-IP DNS distributes DNS and user application requests based on business policies, data center and cloud service conditions, user location, and application performance. The BIG-IP platform delivers F5’s high-performance DNS services with visibility, reporting, and analysis; hyperscales and secures DNS responses geographically to survive DDoS attacks; delivers a real-time DNSSEC solution; and ensures high availability of global applications in all cloud environments.

Scaling and securing every environment helps protect your business from site outages and improves DNS and application performance. Securing DNS infrastructures from the latest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and protecting DNS query responses from cachepoisoning redirects will help keep your business online and viable. To fully achieve these goals, you need efficient ways to monitor DNS infrastructure and application health, and to scale on-demand.

Key Benefits

Hyperscale DNS up to 100 million RPS with a fully loaded chassis

BIG-IP DNS hyperscales authoritative DNS up to 100 million query responses per second (RPS) and controls DNS traffic. It ensures that users are connected to the best site and delivers on-demand scaling for DNS and global apps.

Protect against DNS attacks and ensure availability

Ensure DNS and application availability and protection during DNS DDoS attacks or volume spikes. Mitigate DNS threats by blocking access to malicious IP domains.

Improve global application performance

Send app users to the cloud or on-premises site with the best performance based on application, geolocation, business, and network conditions.

Deploy flexibly, scale as you grow, and manage efficiently

BIG-IP DNS delivers flexible global application management in virtual and multi-cloud environments. The web-based UI provides easy DNS configuration with centralized menus; advanced logging, statistics, and reporting along with export to 3rd party analytics.

BIG-IP Platforms

  • Virtual Editionsof BIG-IP software run on commodity servers and support the range of hypervisors and performance requirements. VEs provide agility, mobility, and fast deployment of app services in software-defined data centers and cloud environments. See the BIG-IP System Hardware, VIPRION, VELOS, and Virtual Edition data sheets for more details. For information about specific module support for each platform, see the latest release notes on AskF5. For the full list of supported hypervisors, refer to the VE Supported Hypervisors Matrix.
  • BIG-IP iSeriesappliances deliver quick and easy programmability, ecosystem-friendly orchestration, and record-breaking, software-defined hardware performance. As a result, customers can accelerate private clouds and secure critical data at scale while lowering TCO and future-proofing their application  F5 solutions can be rapidly deployed via integrations with open source configuration management tools and orchestration systems.
  • BIG-IP rSeriesappliances bridges the gap between traditional and modern infrastructures with a rearchitected, API-first platform designed to meet the needs of your traditional and emerging applications. The new F5 rSeries delivers unprecedented levels of performance, a fully automatable architecture, and the highest reliability, security and access control for your critical applications.
  • VELOSplatform is the next generation of F5’s industry-leading chassis-based systems, which delivers unprecedented performance and scalability in a single Application Delivery Controller (ADC). You can seamlessly scale capacity by adding modular blades in a chassis, without disruption, and VELOS allows a mix of traditional BIG-IP tenants as well as next-generation BIG-IP tenants in the future.
  • VIPRIONmodular chassis and blade systems designed specifically for performance and for true, on-demand, linear scalability without business disruption. VIPRION systems leverage F5’s ScaleN clustering technology so you can add blades without reconfiguring or rebooting.


Table 1.   F5 BIG-IP Software License Modules Specifications

iSeries Models

LTM

DNS

APM

AFM

AWF

CGN

SSLO

PEM

BR

BT

F5-i2600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

F5-i2800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

F5-i4600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i4800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

F5-i5600

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i5800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-i5820-DF

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i7600

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i7600-D

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i7800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-i7800-D

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

F5-i7820-DF

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i10600

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i10600-D

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i10800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-i10800-D

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

F5-i11400-DS

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i11600

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i11600-DS

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i11800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-i11800-DS

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

✅

F5-i15600

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-i15800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-i15820-DF

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

rSeries Models

LTM

DNS

APM

AFM

AWF

CGN

SSLO

PEM

BR

BT

F5-r2600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

F5-r2800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

F5-r4600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r4800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

F5-r5600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r5800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-r5900

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-r5920-DF

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r10600

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r10800

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-r10900

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

F5-r10920-DF

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r12600-DS

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r12800-DS

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

F5-r12900-DS

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

✅

✅

VELOS Models

LTM

DNS

APM

AFM

AWF

CGN

SSLO

PEM

BR

BT

VELOS-CX410

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

VELOS-CX410-N

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

VIPRION Models

LTM

DNS

APM

AFM

AWF

CGN

SSLO

PEM

BR

BT

VIPRION-2200

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

VIPRION-2400

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

VIPRION-4480

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

VIPRION-4480

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅


DNS

Table 1.   F5 BIG-IP DNS Series Ordering information

Product Number

Description

Virtual Editions

F5-BIG-DNS-VE250KV18

BIG-IP Virtual Edition: DNS License (GSLB, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing, 250000 RPS, v12.1.x – v18.x)

F5-BIG-DNS-VE-08-V18

BIG-IP Virtual Edition: DNS High performance VE (8 vcpu, v13.1.0.2 – v18.x)

BIG-IP iSeries

F5-BIG-DNS-I15820-DF

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i15820 FIPS (512G, Dual SSD, VCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I15800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i15800 (512G, SSD, VCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I15600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i15600 (512G, SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I11800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i11800 (256G, SSD, vCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I11600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i11600 (256G, SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I10800-D

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i10800 (128G, Dual SSD, vCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I10800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i10800 (128G,SSD,vCMP,DNSSEC,Routing,GSLB,DNS Svc,Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I10600-D

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i10600 (128G, Dual SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I10600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i10600 (128G, SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I7820-DF

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i7820 FIPS (96G, Dual SSD, vCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Service, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I7800-D

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i7800 (96G,Dual SSD,vCMP,DNSSEC,Routing,GSLB,DNS Services,Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I7800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i7800 (96G,SSD,vCMP,DNSSEC,Routing,GSLB,DNS Svc,Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I7600-D

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i7600 (96G, Dual SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I7600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i7600 (96G, SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-I5820-DF

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i5820 FIPS (48G, Dual SSD, vCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Service)

F5-BIG-DNS-I5800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i5800 (48G, SSD, vCMP, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Service)

F5-BIG-DNS-I5600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i5600 (48G, SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services)

F5-BIG-DNS-I4800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i4800 (32G, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services)

F5-BIG-DNS-I4600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i4600 (32G, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services)

F5-BIG-DNS-I2800

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i2800 (16G, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services)

F5-BIG-DNS-I2600

BIG-IP Appliance: DNS i2600 (16G, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services)

BIG-IP rSeries

F5-BIG-DNS-R10900

BIG-IP r10900 DNS (256 GB Memory, Dual U.2 SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-R10800

BIG-IP r10800 DNS (256 GB Memory, Dual U.2 SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-R10600

BIG-IP r10600 DNS (256 GB Memory, Dual U.2 SSD, DNSSEC, Routing, GSLB, DNS Services, Dual AC)

F5-BIG-DNS-R5900

BIG-IP r5900 DNS (128 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R5800

BIG-IP r5800 DNS (128 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R5600

BIG-IP r5600 DNS (128 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R4800

BIG-IP r4800 DNS (64 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R4600

BIG-IP r4600 DNS (64 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R2800

BIG-IP r2800 DNS (32 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

F5-BIG-DNS-R2600

BIG-IP r2600 DNS (32 GB Memory, M.2 SSD, GSLB, DNS Services, DNSSEC, Advanced Routing)

VIPRION Chassis and Blades

F5-ADD-VPR-DNS-M

VIPRION Add-on: DNS Max Performance License (DNSSEC, Routing)

F5-ADD-VPR-DNS

VIPRION Add-on: DNS License

F5-ADD-VPR-DNSSEC

VIPRION Add-on: DNSSEC License

F5-ADD-VPR-DNS-1K

VIPRION Add-on: DNS (DNSSEC, 1K QPS, 25 GSLB, 5 DNS Objects)

VELOS Chassis and Blades

F5-VEL-DNS-CX410-AC

VELOS Chassis: DNS CX410 8-Slot (Dual AC, Dual System Controllers)

F5-VEL-DNS-BX110

VELOS Blade: DNS License BX110 Blade (For DNS Chassis only)


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