Bug ID 491560: Using proxy for IP intelligence updates

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM, ASM, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.1.4, 12.1.4

Opened: Nov 18, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When connecting to the proxy server, the iprepd daemon doesn't send in CONNECT request the value of DB variable iprep.server but its locally resolved IP address.

Impact

When the proxy sees the traffic it denies it, because the reverse lookup for that server IP is not present.

Conditions

The following DB variables are configured to use proxy: proxy.host proxy.port This presents a problem when the proxy server is configured to allow only IPs that have a reverse lookup.

Workaround

Use one of the workarounds: -- Do not use proxy. -- Check the server IP address regularly and maintain proxy white list manually.

Fix Information

Now the iprepd daemon sends CONNECT request with the value of DB variable iprep.server and lets the proxy server do the DNS lookup.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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