Bug ID 646443: Ephemeral Node may be errantly created in bigd, causing crash

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3

Fixed In:
13.0.1, 12.1.3, 11.6.3.2

Opened: Feb 17, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K54432535

Symptoms

When FQDN Ephemeral Nodes are being used at the same time as static Node objects, and there is change in those objects, either via DNS resolver changes or manual changes to static nodes, there exists a chance where one may be misidentified as the other during an update, causing a crash in bigd.

Impact

The bigd process restarts and produces a core file, causing interruption of pool member monitors.

Conditions

This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: -- The BIG-IP configuration contains a mix of FQDN pool members or nodes, and static node objects. -- You perform one of the following actions: + Modify current node settings + Create or delete nodes

Workaround

Avoid use of FQDN Nodes and Pool Members; use only static-IP Nodes/Members instead.

Fix Information

Fixed case where misidentification may occur, resulting in bigd running without crashing.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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