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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2010
Yanzheng Wang, Shenzhen, CN;
Xianneng Zou, Shenzhen, CN;
Yanzheng Wang, Shenzhen, CN;
Xianneng Zou, Shenzhen, CN;
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and DNS server for load balancing network servers. The method includes: monitoring whether each network server is capable of providing a network service, deleting an IP address of a network server which is incapable of providing a network service from an IP list in a DNS server or setting the IP address as invalid in the IP list according to a monitoring result; receiving, by the DNS server, a request from a network user for accessing a network server, selecting an IP address from valid IP addresses in the IP list which corresponds to the request; providing, by a network server having the selected IP address, network services for the network user.