Faster response time is one of the major outcomes, and the second one is definitely the availability of the application. Earlier, we had one data center, so when something went wrong in the data center, whether it was related to a firewall, router, or switches, there was an outage. Now, since we have two data centers, if something goes wrong in one data center, the second data center will handle the traffic. That is the major improvement and major benefit we are getting. We have reduced downtime to almost zero percent now. There is no downtime for any application. If you are looking for a GSLB kind of solution, you should definitely go for F5 BIG-IP DNS. It is giving great help to an organization in achieving their goal of making applications available twenty-four seven, three hundred sixty-five days a year. I gave this product a rating of nine out of ten.
Solutions Architect at Mideast Communication Systems-MCS
Reseller
Top 5
Aug 11, 2025
F5 BIG-IP DNS features advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. Regarding threat detection and mitigation capabilities, they have features for dealing with DDoS protection, detection, and even mitigation, which includes redirecting traffic. It's a broad question as they have numerous features including the WAF for HTTP and web application attack detection and mitigation, handling it from multiple vectors. I'm not into deep details in implementation of health monitoring and automated failover capabilities because I work as a solution architect and didn't do it myself, even as a pre-sales, so I might not know those details. I was working as a pre-sales, not research into these products. I see no disadvantages or areas for improvement. It functions correctly, and I'm not deep technical, as I'm selling it, so there's not much competition; no one complains about the main function which is load balancing and web application firewall. On a scale of one to ten, I would give F5 BIG-IP DNS a rating of eight.
I recommend F5 BIG-IP based on the specific environment and application protection needs. For example, F5 offers separate products for DDoS attacks. Understanding specific company needs is crucial. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
While we haven't explored AI-driven features yet, it's part of our roadmap for future versions. I would recommend F5 BIG-IP DNS to others in the industry. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of 10 as it meets our current needs but it will always have room for improvement.
I would recommend using the solution. But keep in mind that you should have some basic understanding of F5 technology. With the basic knowledge of F5, it will be easily manageable. It will not take a longer time if you are following the guide. So it will not take a long time to configure. Overall, I will rate F5 an eight out of ten because it's a very stable and good product for load balancing. When we talk about load balancing, there may be other products, but F5 is more stable and easily available everywhere.
- at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
May 22, 2023
Everything is good and perfect with F5 BIG-IP DNS. It's a very hard system, and you really need a lot of time to understand how it works. After you understand this, you can do whatever you want. I have experience with Local Traffic Manager (LTM), with which you have a lot of opportunities to modify your traffic. If you need to publish a very simple and a couple of site or web applications, you can go and find another solution. If you have a very difficult infrastructure and a very difficult application with IP, and you need a couple of DNS and global balancing, F5 can solve the problem. It is a good solution that provides unlimited filing to its users. Also, you can add other solutions or modules to F5 BIG-IP DNS. Also, you have good support and product. I never see some difficulties working with this product. I didn't see bugs or some other problems with this product. I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.
Associate Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Jan 23, 2023
I give the solution a seven out of ten. The solution is currently on-prem. The engineering team is always upgrading something. Perhaps in six months, this solution will be pushed to the cloud. The cloud has its own load balancer tools. We may decommission the solution down the line. We have between 70 and 80 middleware users on our team that use the solution. We are the link between the development and the production teams. We are the service providers, sitting at the center of the funnel of time. Time flows through us, and we act as a bridge between the developers making requests and the rest of the world. Without this center frame, the requests would not be visible. Our organization started using the solution a long time ago, around 2014 or 2015. At that point, the cloud was not as popular as it is now, and F5 BIG-IP DNS was at its peak. The organization may soon migrate to a cloud environment. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a very user-friendly solution, and because it's an old tool, it's easier to understand in the first call compared to an API gateway. The solution is quite easy to configure any new items which are available. New users should keep the configuration neat and shouldn't mix different types. The details are fine enough, the solution won't give us bad feedback and will result in a positive output.
BIG-IP DNS is easy to deploy as you can just log in to F5 and request free trial licenses, and the Virtual Edition can be deployed on public and on-prem cloud. I would rate BIG-IP DNS nine out of ten.
We recommend it for customers who have complex product balancing requirements. For example, if a customer needs to parse network packets and needs to change them. We are partners with both F5 BIG-IP and Loadbalancer.org. I would rate F5 BIG-IP DNS an eight out of ten.
Technical Services Manager at ProComm technologies
Real User
Oct 4, 2020
We're doing a campaign now to question our customers about business resilience using the F5 product. Most customers have invested in business continuity but sometimes they find that what they have done doesn't conform to their own business continuity plans. We go into this type of environment and introduce F5 to ensure that their continuity plans are on point. In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it. That said, no product is perfect. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
F5 BIG-IP DNS provides intelligent traffic management and DNS security, enhancing application performance and availability through efficient load balancing and DDoS protection.F5 BIG-IP DNS is a powerful tool for managing global traffic across data centers, offering robust security, scalability, and intelligent traffic steering based on server health and location. It balances traffic through its Global Traffic Manager and Global Server Load Balancing, ensuring high availability and improved...
Faster response time is one of the major outcomes, and the second one is definitely the availability of the application. Earlier, we had one data center, so when something went wrong in the data center, whether it was related to a firewall, router, or switches, there was an outage. Now, since we have two data centers, if something goes wrong in one data center, the second data center will handle the traffic. That is the major improvement and major benefit we are getting. We have reduced downtime to almost zero percent now. There is no downtime for any application. If you are looking for a GSLB kind of solution, you should definitely go for F5 BIG-IP DNS. It is giving great help to an organization in achieving their goal of making applications available twenty-four seven, three hundred sixty-five days a year. I gave this product a rating of nine out of ten.
F5 BIG-IP DNS features advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. Regarding threat detection and mitigation capabilities, they have features for dealing with DDoS protection, detection, and even mitigation, which includes redirecting traffic. It's a broad question as they have numerous features including the WAF for HTTP and web application attack detection and mitigation, handling it from multiple vectors. I'm not into deep details in implementation of health monitoring and automated failover capabilities because I work as a solution architect and didn't do it myself, even as a pre-sales, so I might not know those details. I was working as a pre-sales, not research into these products. I see no disadvantages or areas for improvement. It functions correctly, and I'm not deep technical, as I'm selling it, so there's not much competition; no one complains about the main function which is load balancing and web application firewall. On a scale of one to ten, I would give F5 BIG-IP DNS a rating of eight.
I recommend F5 BIG-IP based on the specific environment and application protection needs. For example, F5 offers separate products for DDoS attacks. Understanding specific company needs is crucial. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
While we haven't explored AI-driven features yet, it's part of our roadmap for future versions. I would recommend F5 BIG-IP DNS to others in the industry. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of 10 as it meets our current needs but it will always have room for improvement.
I would definitely recommend using this solution. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I would recommend using this solution.
I would recommend using the solution. But keep in mind that you should have some basic understanding of F5 technology. With the basic knowledge of F5, it will be easily manageable. It will not take a longer time if you are following the guide. So it will not take a long time to configure. Overall, I will rate F5 an eight out of ten because it's a very stable and good product for load balancing. When we talk about load balancing, there may be other products, but F5 is more stable and easily available everywhere.
Overall, I rate F5 BIG-IP DNS an eight out of ten.
I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten.
Everything is good and perfect with F5 BIG-IP DNS. It's a very hard system, and you really need a lot of time to understand how it works. After you understand this, you can do whatever you want. I have experience with Local Traffic Manager (LTM), with which you have a lot of opportunities to modify your traffic. If you need to publish a very simple and a couple of site or web applications, you can go and find another solution. If you have a very difficult infrastructure and a very difficult application with IP, and you need a couple of DNS and global balancing, F5 can solve the problem. It is a good solution that provides unlimited filing to its users. Also, you can add other solutions or modules to F5 BIG-IP DNS. Also, you have good support and product. I never see some difficulties working with this product. I didn't see bugs or some other problems with this product. I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.
I give the solution a seven out of ten. The solution is currently on-prem. The engineering team is always upgrading something. Perhaps in six months, this solution will be pushed to the cloud. The cloud has its own load balancer tools. We may decommission the solution down the line. We have between 70 and 80 middleware users on our team that use the solution. We are the link between the development and the production teams. We are the service providers, sitting at the center of the funnel of time. Time flows through us, and we act as a bridge between the developers making requests and the rest of the world. Without this center frame, the requests would not be visible. Our organization started using the solution a long time ago, around 2014 or 2015. At that point, the cloud was not as popular as it is now, and F5 BIG-IP DNS was at its peak. The organization may soon migrate to a cloud environment. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a very user-friendly solution, and because it's an old tool, it's easier to understand in the first call compared to an API gateway. The solution is quite easy to configure any new items which are available. New users should keep the configuration neat and shouldn't mix different types. The details are fine enough, the solution won't give us bad feedback and will result in a positive output.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
BIG-IP DNS is easy to deploy as you can just log in to F5 and request free trial licenses, and the Virtual Edition can be deployed on public and on-prem cloud. I would rate BIG-IP DNS nine out of ten.
I would give BIG-IP DNS a rating of nine out of ten.
On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would give F5 BIG-IP DNS an eight as a solution overall.
Anyone deciding to implement F5 BIG-IP DNS should be aware that it is a complex and powerful product. I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.
We recommend it for customers who have complex product balancing requirements. For example, if a customer needs to parse network packets and needs to change them. We are partners with both F5 BIG-IP and Loadbalancer.org. I would rate F5 BIG-IP DNS an eight out of ten.
It's a good solution, I would recommend using this solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We're doing a campaign now to question our customers about business resilience using the F5 product. Most customers have invested in business continuity but sometimes they find that what they have done doesn't conform to their own business continuity plans. We go into this type of environment and introduce F5 to ensure that their continuity plans are on point. In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it. That said, no product is perfect. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.