WCF, Metadata and BIGIP - Can I force the correct url for the WSDL items?

Question

We have a WCF service hosted on ServerA which is a server with no-direct Internet access and has a non-Internet routable IP address.

The service is fronted by BIGI

Answer 1

I got a great tip that setting the address attribute on the endpoint to the url you wish to display in the WSDL and then add a listenUri attribute to the endpoint with the actual Uri to listen on would do the trick.

The Url in the test page does not get affected (i.e it will still show the address specified in the ListenUri) but within the WSDL the correct Uri will be set (the one specified in the address.

Most annoyingly, though - when I tried this shortly after I posted the question, I could not get it to work within IIS, only when self hosting in a console app; checking myself today I found that it does indeed work; so now I'm not sure why it didn't work for me before;

What we have done in the mean time is buid a simple custom behaviour that changed the service description putting the address required in the WSDL from configurtion; obviously if there's built in support for that it's much better, so I will hopfully get some time next week to look into this further.