Last Modified: Oct 04, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.0.0, 15.1.8, 15.1.7, 15.1.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 15.1.1, 15.1.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.0, 14.1.2, 14.1.0, 14.0.1, 14.0.0, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.3
Opened: Jan 30, 2019 Severity: 3-Major
When using FQDN nodes and pool members, ephemeral pool members may not be created as expected immediately after a configuration-load or BIG-IP system reboot operation.
When this issue occurs, some subset of ephemeral pool members may not be created as expected. As a result, some pools may not have any active pool members, and do not pass traffic. This issue, when it occurs, may persist until the next DNS queries occur for each FQDN name, at which point the missing ephemeral pool members are typically created as expected. Using the default FQDN interval value of 3600 seconds, such downtime lasts approximately one hour.
This may occur on affected BIG-IP versions when: -- Multiple FQDN names (configured for FQDN nodes/pool members) resolve to the same IP address. -- DNS queries to resolve these FQDN names occur almost simultaneously. The occurrence of this issue is very sensitive to timing conditions, and is more likely to occur when there are larger numbers of FQDN names resolving to a common IP address.
To minimize the duration of time when pools may be missing ephemeral pool members, configure a shorter FQDN interval value for the FQDN nodes: tmsh mod ltm node fqdn-node-name { fqdn { interval ## } } Where ## is the desired number of seconds between successive DNS queries to resolve the configure FQDN name.
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