Afilias Limited

Dynamic Network Services. Inc.

Joseph Nicholas Abley

James M Galvin

Howard Eland

Cedarampattu Mohan

Richard Gibson

Cederampattu Mohan

Amy Linari

Erich Rickheit

System and method for determining traceability of network request traffic over a communications network for reducing strain in traffic processing resources, which includes: provisioning a direct interconnect on the communications network between the server and a predefined source, the direct interconnect providing a private service interface, a defined pairings data of the predefined source with the direct interconnect stored in a storage as a network traffic almanac; provisioning a public service interface on the communications network; receiving a request traffic having an address of the predefined source via the public service interface; consulting the defined paring data with the address to determine if the request traffic matches the predefined source; and de-prioritizing processing of the request traffic based on the request traffic being received on the public service interface rather than the direct interconnect, by dynamically applying a prioritize criterion to the second request traffic before generating a response traffic.

Determining traceability of network traffic over a communications network

A system and method for determining the traceability of network request traffic over a communications network for reducing strain in traffic processing resources, which includes: provisioning a direct interconnect on the communications network between the server and a predefined source, the direct interconnect providing a private service interface, a defined pairings data of the predefined source with the direct interconnect stored as a network traffic almanac; provisioning a public service interface on the communications network; receiving a request traffic having an address of the predefined source via the public service interface; consulting the defined pairing data with the address to determine the request traffic matches the predefined source; and de-prioritizing the processing of the request traffic based on the request traffic being received on the public service interface rather than on the direct interconnect by dynamically applying a prioritize criterion to the second request traffic before generating a response traffic.

In some instances, it could be advantageous to return different IP addresses for a query relating to a domain name. Conventional methods for returning different IP addresses for a given query include modifying the authoritative DNS server. However, such modifications do not scale well and increase the complexity of the system. To address this problem, a proxy server configured for intelligent DNS forwarding is disclosed. DNS queries from an end user are forwarded to the authoritative DNS server via the proxy server. Responses from the authoritative DNS servers include metadata with embedded policies and rules defined by customers. The proxy server processes the metadata by executing the embedded policies and rules, looking up network resources based on the embedded rules, and determining an optimal IP address based on the look up data and embedded policies. This optimal IP address is sent to the end user in response to the query.

Methods and apparatus for intelligent domain name system forwarding

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Joseph Nicholas Abley