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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pascal Thubert, Roquefort les Pins, FR;
Pradeep Kumar Kathail, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Valbonne, FR;
David A. Maluf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for using Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to obfuscate server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns an endpoint identifiers (EID) that is mapped to the client device and at least one routing locator (RLOC) of the endpoint device. In this way, IP addresses of servers are obfuscated by a network mapping of EIDs and RLOCs. The client device may then communicate data packets to the server using the EIDs as the destination address, and a virtual network service that works in conjunction with DNS can encapsulate the data packet with the RLOC using LISP and forward the data packet onto the server.