Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for resolving domain name services (DNS) queries for address information about hosts on a network. The queries are posited from remote users across a satellite or other remote link to a network. In response to a domain name services request from the client containing a name of the server, a placeholder address is generated and provided in response to the client. After a subsequent request for a connection to the server is received, the name of the server is re-associated with the placeholder address and the connection request containing the proper host name is forwarded across the data link. A hub processor receives the request for connection, resolves the name of the server to an address on the network, and establishes a connection between the client and the server using the address on the network.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 2, 2007
Publication date:
April 2, 2009
Applicant:
ECHOSTAR BROADBAND, LLC
Inventors:
THOMAS STEVEN TAYLOR, JOHN YAKEMOVICH, ALISSON FRIEDRICH, TOM HANSEN, KIRUTHIKA SELVAMANI
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for resolving domain name services (DNS) queries for address information about hosts on a network. The queries are posited from remote users across a satellite or other remote link to a network, and are monitored as they pass through a central node logically present between the remote link and the network. A list of statistically significant hosts on the network is maintained and transmitted from the central node to the plurality of remote users across the remote link. By providing the remote nodes with a current list of popular hosts and associated address information, subsequent domain name services queries placed for the statistically significant hosts may be resolved without communicating across the remote link.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 5, 2007
Publication date:
March 5, 2009
Applicant:
ECHOSTAR BROADBAND, LLC
Inventors:
Thomas Steven Taylor, John Yakemovich, Tom Hansen, Kiruthika Selvamani, Alisson Emilio Friedrich