System and domain name server for ad-hoc networks
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorCezary Purzynski
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and domain name server for ad-hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile router providing connectivity to end users in an ad-hoc network. The mobile router includes a domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a node associated with the mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the node. The DNS server stores records of name-address translations for the end users. A management structure of the DNS server at the node includes a domain name for the node coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system.
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A mobile router providing connectivity to end users in an ad-hoc network, the mobile router including:
- a domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a node associated with the mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the node, the DNS server configured to,
- store records of name-address translations for the end users, a management structure of the DNS server at the node including a domain name for the node coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system, and
- create an alias record for each of the end users, the alias record includes a higher level domain name and not the domain name for the node.
An ad-hoc network providing connectivity to end users, the ad-hoc network including:
- a first domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a first node associated with a first mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the first node;
- and
- a second DNS server configured as a master DNS server at a second node associated with a second mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network though the second node, the first and second DNS servers configured to,
- store records of name-address translations for the end users, a management structure of each of the first and second DNS servers including a domain name for each of the first and second nodes coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system, the first mobile router forming a cluster with the second mobile router, and
- create an alias record for each of the end users, the alias record includes a higher level domain name and not the domain name for each of the first and second nodes.
A mobile router providing connectivity to end users in an ad-hoc network, the mobile router including:
- a domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a node associated with the mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the node, the DNS server configured to store records of name-address translations for the end users, a management structure of the DNS server at the node including a domain name for the node coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system,
- wherein the management structure of the DNS server further includes an umbrella organization associated with an administrative authority, the umbrella organization includes at least one node, and the umbrella organization of the DNS server is different from an umbrella organization associated with the at least one other mobile router.
A mobile router providing connectivity to end users in an ad-hoc network, the mobile router including:
- a domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a node associated with the mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the node, the DNS server configured to store records of name-address translations for the end users, a management structure of the DNS server at the node including a domain name for the node coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system,
- wherein the management structure of the DNS server further includes an umbrella organization associated with an administrative authority, the umbrella organization includes at least one node, and the node associated with the mobile router is designated as a primary node, the primary node provides lookup queries for addresses outside the umbrella organization of the mobile router.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.