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Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Phillip Andrew Heller, Belmont, MA (US);

Mark Michael Warren, Stoneham, MA (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04L 65/1006 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A methodology for operating an authoritative DNS server includes receiving a DNS query from a DNS client, in response to the DNS query, traversing a label tree stored in the authoritative DNS server to find a resource record that matches the DNS query, while traversing the label tree, encountering a LINK record in the label tree that is configured to redirect the traversing to a different branch of the label tree, and in response to the LINK record, redirecting the traversing to the different branch of the label tree, wherein the LINK record is a resource record type that is hidden from DNS clients and is configured to redirect for an owner of the record type and subordinates thereof.


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