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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2016
Verisign, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Nathan Glenn, Leesburg, VA (US);
VERISIGN, INC., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for associating a firewall policy with a dynamic domain name system (DNS) hostname. A policy configuration portal transmits a first request to a names server to translate a first hostname into a corresponding network address. The policy configuration portal receives a first network address from the names server in response to the first request. The policy configuration portal determines that the first network address is different than a second network address that is currently associated with the first hostname. The policy configuration portal associates the first network address with the first hostname. The policy configuration portal modifies a firewall policy configuration associated with the first hostname to include the first network address. At least one advantage of the disclosed techniques is that a firewall policy can be implemented for a residential home or small business that employs dynamic IP addressing.