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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2008
R. Scott Perry, Westborough, MA (US);
Paul D. Parisi, Boxford, MA (US);
R. Scott Perry, Westborough, MA (US);
Paul D. Parisi, Boxford, MA (US);
DNSstuff, LLC, Newburyport, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, system and apparatus including receiving a request from a network device, the request including an IP address of said network device, generating and sending to the network device a domain name for locating a device configured to process a DNS query, the domain name corresponding to the IP address, the network device generating and sending a DNS query including the domain name and at least one local DNS setting of the network device to the device configured to the process the DNS query, and the device processing an association between the IP address and the at least one local DNS setting of the network device.