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Dragan_24408
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May 14, 2014

How can I export zone files from F5 GTM?

How can I export zone files from F5 GTM? I am trying to move ZoneRunner dbs from one F5 to another but access is restricted by firewall and have to manually create the zones.

 

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  • All of the zone files are kept in /var/named/config/namedb. You could manually move those files along with your named.conf which is in /var/named/config to your other GTM. Or if SSH is open between then, just SCP the files over.

     

  • Thanks for the reply. That is exactly what I have done but the GTM complains about all the TXT records and does not import those. I had to manually enter those records.

     

    Thanks again.

     

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      What was the error given for not importing a TXT record?
  • May 14 15:46:13 --f5gtm01 notice zrd[21357]: 01150216:5: Notice from named-checkconf: zone abcdefg123.com.au/IN: 'abcdefg123.com.au' found SPF/TXT record but no SPF/SPF record found, add matching type SPF record

     

  • I see those errors in my logs too, as we have TXT records for SPF. ZoneRunner doesn't yet provide a way to enter SPF type records so we haven't done so. I suppose you could manually edit the BIND zone file and enter an SPF type record and the error should go away. We've used this method to create CERT type records and it works.

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/000/sol7032.html

     

  • Thanks for your answer.. That is exactly what we have done. Half automated transfer of the zones and whatever was not working we had to resort to manual re-creation.