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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of application program interface (API) endpoint host redirection may include with an intelligent domain name system (DNS) engine (IDE) associated with a containerized service within a pod of a mesh network, snooping a DNS query from the containerized service, identifying within the DNS query, an API endpoint name, snooping a DNS response associated with the DNS query, identifying an Internet protocol (IP) address associated with the API endpoint name, transmitting the API endpoint name and the IP address to a controller, receiving, from the controller, a list of safe API endpoint hosts with no known security vulnerabilities based on security data obtained from at least one security service, caching, at the IDE, the list of safe API endpoint hosts including safe IP addresses, and transmitting to the containerized service, via the IDE, IP addresses of safe API endpoint hosts within the list of safe API endpoint hosts.