Patent ID: 11943195
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A computing system configured to perform zero-trust domain name resolution, the computing system comprising:
one or more applications;
a zero-trust client coupled to the one or more applications, wherein the zero-trust client is configured to receive requests for IP addresses corresponding to endpoint identifiers for internet connected endpoints;
wherein the zero-trust client comprises a synthetic DNS service configured to identify synthetic IP addresses for the endpoint identifiers, the synthetic IP addresses being IP addresses that are different from corresponding IP addresses assigned to the endpoint identifiers by a trusted DNS service configured to provide globally valid IP addresses;
wherein the zero-trust client is configured to provide the synthetic IP addresses for the endpoint identifiers to the applications;
wherein the zero-trust client is configured to send data traffic from the applications to a zero-trust service with the synthetic IP addresses and to send corresponding endpoint identifiers to the zero-trust service in a fashion that allows the synthetic IP addresses to be correlated to the endpoint identifiers at the zero-trust service.