Traffic Manager routing method that answers each query with multiple healthy endpoints, at most 10. It accepts only External endpoints specified as IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
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Terms in this definition
- Traffic Manager
A global traffic router working purely through DNS, with methods such as priority, weighted, performance and geographic, for any protocol. HTTP traffic never passes through it and it caches no content.
- Geographic
A Traffic Manager routing method that picks the endpoint according to where the user is located geographically.
- External
API Management virtual network mode in which the gateway stays public but can call private back ends inside the VNet.
- IPv4
The 32-bit version of IP addressing. It remains the address format you will see most often in log data and threat indicators.
- IPv6
Addressing based on 128 bits, available in Standard public IPs and dual-stack VNets. Public IPs for Azure Firewall and Bastion have to be IPv4.
Related terms
- Azure endpoint
Kind of Traffic Manager endpoint pointing at an Azure service, such as a web app or a public IP resource that has a DNS name; a MultiValue profile can't use it.
- External endpoint
Traffic Manager endpoint type pointing to an IPv4/IPv6 address or FQDN, which can be outside Azure. MultiValue routing accepts only External endpoints defined by IP address.