Network name resolution into network address
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsSergey Gerasimov, Clay E. Olsen, Marc A. Sordi
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Abstract
A first domain name system (DNS) server of a first protocol type is requested to resolve a network name into a network address of the first protocol type. Where the network name is not resolved into a network address of the first protocol type by the first DNS server, a second DNS server of a second protocol type is requested to resolve the network name into a network address of the second protocol type. Where the first DNS server or the second DNS server resolves the network name into a network address, the network address into which the network name has been resolved is returned for access of a network resource at the network address and identified by the network name.
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A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising:
- requesting, by the computing device, a first domain name system (DNS) server of a first protocol type to resolve a network name into a network address of the first protocol type;
- only where the network name is not resolved into a network address of the first protocol type by the first DNS server,
- requesting, by the computing device, a second DNS server of a second protocol type to resolve the network name into a network address of the second protocol type;
- and,
- where the first DNS server or the second DNS server resolves the network name into a network address,
- receiving by the computing device from the first DNS server or the second DNS server, the network address into which the network name has been resolved for access of a network resource at the network address and identified by the network name,
- accessing, by the computing device, the network resource at the network address into which the network name has been resolved.
An electronic device comprising:
- a communications component to receive a network name associated with a network resource from an application and to send a network address into which the network name has been resolved to the application for access of the network resource by the application at the network address;
- a network component to communicatively connect the electronic device to a plurality of domain name system (DNS) servers of a first protocol type and to a plurality of DNS servers of a second protocol type;
- and,
- logic to alternatingly request the DNS servers of the first protocol type and the DNS servers of the second protocol type to resolve the network name into a network address until one of the DNS servers resolves the network name into a network address.
An electronic device comprising:
- a communications component to receive a network name associated with a network resource from an application and to send a network address into which the network name has been resolved to the application for access of the network resource by the application at the network address;
- a network component to communicatively connect the electronic device to a plurality of domain name system (DNS) servers of a first protocol type and to a plurality of DNS servers of a second protocol type;
- and,
- means for alternatingly requesting the DNS servers of the first protocol type and the DNS servers of the second protocol type to resolve the network name into a network address until one of the DNS servers resolves the network name into a network address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.