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Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2018
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventor:
Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/6009 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/1552 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach for intercepting and caching Domain Name System (DNS) related data and sharing the cached DNS related data among hypervisors is provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a DNS query from a virtual machine, determining whether a DNS reply to the DNS query has been received from a DNS server and whether an Internet Protocol (IP) address has been stored in a local DNS cache; in response to determining that tire DNS reply to the DNS query has been received from the DNS server and the IP address has been stored in the local DNS cache; retrieving the IP address from the local DNS cache; and providing the IP address to the virtual machine.


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