101 · Question #285
Using IP Geolocation, an organization can always direct a client request from France to a datacenter in Dublin.
The correct answer is A. True. F5 BIG-IP IP Geolocation uses a regularly updated IP-to-location database to consistently steer traffic from a given country to a designated datacenter based on administrator-configured policy.
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Using IP Geolocation, an organization can always direct a client request from France to a datacenter in Dublin.
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- ATrue
- BFalse
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(35 responses)- A94% (33)
- B6% (2)
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F5 BIG-IP IP Geolocation uses a regularly updated IP-to-location database to consistently steer traffic from a given country to a designated datacenter based on administrator-configured policy.
F5 BIG-IP resolves a client's geographic location by looking up their source IP address in the embedded GeoDB database, and any iRule or traffic policy configured to match France will deterministically forward every matching request to the Dublin datacenter. Because the routing decision is policy-driven and executed on every connection, the steering behavior is consistent and reliable for all clients whose IPs resolve to France in the database.
False is incorrect because IP Geolocation on BIG-IP is explicitly designed for deterministic, country-based traffic steering - when the policy is configured, matching clients are always directed to the specified location without exception.
Concept tested: F5 BIG-IP IP Geolocation geographic traffic steering
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-17-0-0/big-ip-dns-services-implementations/using-ip-geolocation.html
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