Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Sumeet Gupta

Charles E Gero

Stephan Benny

Seemant Choudhary

Seetharama Sarma Ayyadevara

Robert Lauro Quiros

Priyatham Phani Srinath Adigopula

Poornima Venkatesha, Sr

Manoj Kumar

Pravin Tatti

A method of traffic forwarding and disambiguation through the use of local proxies and addresses. The technique leverages DNS to on-ramp traffic to a local proxy. The local proxy runs on the end user's device. According to a first embodiment, DNS is used to remap what would normally be a wide range of IP addresses to localhost based on 127.0.0.0/8 listening sockets, where the system can then listen for connections and data. In a second embodiment, a localhost proxy based on a TUN/TAP interface (or other packet interception method) with a user-defined CIDR range to which the local DNS server drives traffic is used. Requests on that local proxy are annotated (by adding data to the upstream connection).

Traffic forwarding and disambiguation by using local proxies and addresses

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Bengaluru, India

Sumeet Gupta