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

Claim 11:
12. A method of performing zero-trust domain name resolution, the method comprising:
identifying a synthetic IP address for an endpoint identifier for an internet connected endpoint at a zero-trust client on a local machine, the synthetic IP address being an IP address that is different from an IP address that is assigned to the endpoint identifier by a trusted DNS service configured to provide globally valid IP addresses;
in response to a request for an IP address corresponding to the endpoint identifier from an application on the local machine providing the synthetic IP address for the endpoint identifier to the application;
receiving data traffic at the zero-trust client, from the application directed to the internet connected endpoint, the data traffic being associated with the synthetic IP address by the application;
sending the data traffic to a zero-trust service with the synthetic IP address; and
sending the endpoint identifier to the zero-trust service in a fashion that allows the synthetic IP address to be correlated to the endpoint identifier at the zero-trust service.