NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS will have to respond with a virtual service’s virtual IP address independent of the state of that virtual service. This behavior is supported through state-based-dns-registration, a new option associated with the cloud object in which the virtual service is defined. This option is available only to users of the NSX Advanced Load Balancer CLI or NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API.
For backward compatibility, by default, the option is TRUE for all clouds. However, if set to FALSE for a given cloud, NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS lookups of virtual services within the cloud will return IP addresses as soon as the virtual services become operational. Virtual services enter the operational state when one of the following conditions are true:
No pool has been defined, but a return page has been defined. The classic use case for this is the return of a static “under construction” page by a virtual service still in its infancy.
The virtual service is an NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS, whether or not it has a back-end server pool defined for it.
A server pool has been associated with the virtual service.
Showing the Current State of the 'state-based-dns-registration Option
The below is an example of the output of the NSX Advanced Load Balancer show shell command. It has been edited to highlight the most relevant command output.
[admin:10-130-150-30]: > show cloud Default-Cloud +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | uuid | cloud-3e33a415-49c9-414d-b71e-8ec79289ae98 | | name | Default-Cloud | | . | . | | . | . | | . | . | | state_based_dns_registration | True | | tenant_ref | admin | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
Changing the 'state-based-dns-registration' Option
Below is a sequence of NSX Advanced Load Balancer shell commands that configure the option to FALSE. It has been edited to highlight the most relevant command output.
[admin:10-130-150-30]: > configure cloud Default-Cloud Updating an existing object. Currently, the object is: +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | uuid | cloud-3e33a415-49c9-414d-b71e-8ec79289ae98 | | name | Default-Cloud | | . | . | | . | . | | . | . | | state_based_dns_registration | True | | tenant_ref | admin | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ [admin:10-130-150-30]: cloud> no state_based_dns_registration +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | uuid | cloud-3e33a415-49c9-414d-b71e-8ec79289ae98 | | name | Default-Cloud | | . | . | | . | . | | . | . | | state_based_dns_registration | False | | tenant_ref | admin | +----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
Toggling the state-based-dns-registration option impacts virtual services that are defined thereafter. It does not have a retroactive effect on virtual services that have already been defined.
