Patent ID: 11956211
Assignee: FORTINET, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for reducing internal network information available outside of a secured network, the method comprising:
receiving, by a processing resource, a request for a requested network resource, wherein the request for the network resource includes a domain name corresponding to the requested network resource;
accessing, by the processing resource, an internal list of domain names, wherein the internal list of domain names includes at least one domain name and a corresponding internet protocol address used to access a network resource identified by the domain name, and wherein the network resource identified by the domain name is accessible within the secured network;
determining, by the processing resource, that the requested network resource is included in the internal list of domain names; and
based at least in part on determining that the requested network resource is included in the internal list of domain names, providing, by the processing resource, an internet protocol address from the internal list of domain names in response to the request for the requested network resource without accessing a domain name system external to the secured network,
wherein the request is received from an endpoint device, wherein providing the internet protocol address from the internal list of domain names includes: providing the internet protocol address from the internal list of domain names for use by the endpoint device, and
wherein providing the internet protocol address from the internal list of domain names for use by the endpoint device includes providing the internet protocol address in a message format used by a domain name system external to the secured network.