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

Claim 0:
1. A method of performing zero-trust domain name resolution, the method comprising:
receiving data traffic and a synthetic IP address from a zero-trust client at a local machine, the synthetic IP address being an IP address that is different from an IP address that is assigned to an endpoint identifier by a trusted DNS service configured to provide globally valid IP addresses;
receiving the endpoint identifier for an internet connected endpoint in a fashion that allows the synthetic IP address to be correlated to the endpoint identifier;
obtaining a trusted IP address for the endpoint identifier;
using the trusted IP address, sending the data traffic to the internet connected endpoint;
receiving response data traffic from the internet connected endpoint; and
providing the response data traffic to the local machine with the response data traffic correlated to the synthetic IP address.