Dns prefetching based on triggers for increased security

A system, comprising:

• a first computing device, comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor of the first computing device, the program logic of the first computing device comprising:
• executable logic for storing historical domain name system (DNS) information from a plurality of sources of DNS information,
• wherein the historical DNS information comprises a plurality of historical DNS requests and a plurality of triggering events correlated to the plurality of historical DNS requests,
• wherein a triggering event of the plurality of triggering events is correlated to at least one historical DNS request of the plurality of historical DNS requests, and
• wherein the correlation between the triggering event and the at least one historical DNS request is configurable;
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• a second computing device communicatively coupled to the first computing device, comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor of the second computing device, the program logic of the second computing device comprising:
• executable logic for identifying, via one or more sensors, an occurrence of a triggering event of the plurality of triggering events,
• wherein the one or more sensors are in the second computing device, attached to the second computing device, connected to the second computing device by a network link, or any combination thereof;
• executable logic for, in response to identifying the occurrence of the triggering event, resolving, within a certain configurable time period after the triggering event, one or more answers to one or more DNS requests correlated with the triggering event based on the stored historical DNS information;
• executable logic for storing the one or more answers, such that the one or more answers are useable by requesters making the one or more DNS requests;
• and
• executable logic for hosting a particular application, running on the second computing device, that requests the one or more answers.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor associated with a computing device, performs a method, the method comprising:

• storing historical domain name system (DNS) information from a plurality of sources of DNS information,
• wherein the historical DNS information comprises a plurality of historical DNS requests and a plurality of triggering events correlated to the plurality of historical DNS requests,
• wherein a triggering event of the plurality of triggering events is correlated to at least one historical DNS request of the plurality of historical DNS requests, and
• wherein the correlation between the triggering event and the at least one historical DNS request is configurable;
• identifying, via one or more sensors, an occurrence of a triggering event of the plurality of triggering events;
• in response to identifying the occurrence of the triggering event, resolving, within a certain configurable time period after the triggering event, one or more answers to one or more DNS requests correlated with the triggering event based on the stored historical DNS information;
• and
• storing the one or more answers, such that the one or more answers are useable by requesters making the one or more DNS requests.