Patent ID: 11895116
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The network device of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are further to:
determine that the traffic corresponds to Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) traffic;
parse a header of HTTP traffic to determine a domain identifier;
compare the domain identifier to the blacklisted domain identifiers stored in the data structure;
determine that the domain identifier corresponds to a blacklisted domain identifier of the blacklisted domain identifiers;
wherein the one or more processors, when selecting the sinkhole server identifier, are to:
select the sinkhole server identifier based on determining that the domain identifier corresponds to the blacklisted domain identifier; and

wherein the one or more processors, when redirecting the traffic towards the sinkhole server, are to:
HTTP redirect the HTTP traffic towards the sinkhole server associated with the sinkhole server identifier.