How many FQDNs do you have to match? The reason I ask is because a data-group match is the best way to achieve this, and I believe data-groups support 10 million entries and you stated hundreds of domains and not millions. You can easily format some text to the appropriate format and paste in the data-group in the CLI to create the data-group quickly. First, the following is an example of the data-group which you would paste in and follow the on screen message that comes up after you run the following command. Please keep in mind that this is a very powerful command so be sure you aren't using any existing configuration that you want to keep and that it's formatted properly before saving after you paste in the text.
load sys config from-terminal merge
This next piece is the text you would paste in for the data-group, with your correct FQDNs of course. If for some reason the formatting isn't correct for your code version on your F5 you can always create the data-group with 2 entries from the GUI, go to the CLI and list out the data-group, grab that and add all your entries, delete the data-group in the GUI, and then finally run the command I listed above with your class text and it should work.
class CLASS-hackit.com {
"fqdn1.hackit.com"
"fqdn2.hackit.com"
"fqdn3.hackit.com"
}
Next you will use the following iRule to direct your traffic accordingly, this is assuming the pool that is associated to the virtual server is the pool that you want to direct traffic to.
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED priority 500 {
set DEFAULT_POOL [LB::server pool]
}
when HTTP_REQUEST priority 500 {
if {[class match -- [HTTP::host] equals CLASS-hackit.com]}{
pool ${DEFAULT_POOL}
} else {
reject
}
}
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