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dns-policy

May 28, 2024
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The following operations can be performed on “dns-policy”:

add show rm set unset

add dns policy

Creates a DNS policy.

Synopsis

add dns policy [] [-logAction ]

Arguments

name Name for the DNS policy.

rule Expression against which DNS traffic is evaluated. Note:

  • On the command line interface, if the expression includes blank spaces, the entire expression must be enclosed in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, you must escape the quotations by using the character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks. Example: CLIENT.UDP.DNS.DOMAIN.EQ(“domainname”)

actionName Name of the DNS action to perform when the rule evaluates to TRUE. The built in actions function as follows:

  • dns_default_act_Drop. Drop the DNS request.
  • dns_default_act_Cachebypass. Bypass the DNS cache and forward the request to the name server. You can create custom actions by using the add dns action command in the CLI or the DNS > Actions > Create DNS Action dialog box in the Citrix ADC configuration utility.

logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.

Example

add dns policy pol1 “dns.req.question.type.ne(aaaa)” -actionName act1 add dns policy pol2 “CLIENT.IP.SRC.IN_SUBNET(1.1.1.1/24)” -actionName action1 add dns policy pol1 dns.res.question.domain.contains(“citrix”) -actionName act2

show dns policy

Displays the parameters of the specified DNS policy or, if no policy name is specified, all configured DNS policies.

Synopsis

show dns policy []

Arguments

name Name of the DNS policy.

Output

rule The expression to be used by the dns policy.

viewName The view name that must be used for the given policy

preferredLocation The location used for the given policy. This is deprecated attribute. Please use -prefLocList

preferredLocList The location list in priority order used for the given policy.

hits The number of times the policy has been hit.

undefHits Number of Undef hits.

drop The dns packet must be dropped.

actionName Name of the DNS action to perform when the rule evaluates to TRUE. The built in actions function as follows:

  • dns_default_act_Drop. Drop the DNS request.
  • dns_default_act_Cachebypass. Bypass the DNS cache and forward the request to the name server. You can create custom actions by using the add dns action command in the CLI or the DNS > Actions > Create DNS Action dialog box in the Citrix ADC configuration utility.

cacheBypass By pass dns cache for this.

activePolicy Indicates whether policy is bound or not.

boundTo Location where policy is bound

priority Specifies the priority of the policy.

gotoPriorityExpression Expression specifying the priority of the next policy which will get evaluated if the current policy rule evaluates to TRUE.

labelType Type of policy label invocation.

labelName Name of the label to invoke if the current policy rule evaluates to TRUE.

description Description of the policy

logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.

builtin Flag to determine whether DNS policy is default or not

feature The feature to be checked while applying this config

stateflag type devno count

rm dns policy

Removes a DNS policy.

Synopsis

rm dns policy

Arguments

name Name of the DNS policy to remove.

set dns policy

Modifies the parameters of the specified DNS policy.

Synopsis

set dns policy [] [-actionName ] [-logAction ]

Arguments

name Name of the DNS policy.

rule Expression against which DNS traffic is evaluated. Note:

  • On the command line interface, if the expression includes blank spaces, the entire expression must be enclosed in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, you must escape the quotations by using the character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks. Example: CLIENT.UDP.DNS.DOMAIN.EQ(“domainname”)

actionName Name of the DNS action to perform when the rule evaluates to TRUE. The built in actions function as follows:

  • dns_default_act_Drop. Drop the DNS request.
  • dns_default_act_Cachebypass. Bypass the DNS cache and forward the request to the name server. You can create custom actions by using the add dns action command in the CLI or the DNS > Actions > Create DNS Action dialog box in the Citrix ADC configuration utility.

logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.

Example

set dns policy pol1 -rule “dns.req.question.type.ne(aaaa)” set dns policy pol2 -rule “CLIENT.IP.SRC.IN_SUBNET(1.1.1.1/24)” set dns policy pol1 -rule dns.res.header.rcode.eq(nxdomain)

unset dns policy

Use this command to remove dns policy settings.Refer to the set dns policy command for meanings of the arguments.

Synopsis

unset dns policy -logAction

dns-policy
May 28, 2024
Contributed by: 
C
May 28, 2024
Contributed by: 
C

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