Patent ID: 9479574
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a network device from a domain name server, a plurality of network addresses generated by the domain name server in response to a domain name query originated by a client machine; determining, by the network device, based upon a first metric associated with a plurality of sites, that a single network address from the plurality of network addresses is not better than all other network addresses in the plurality of network addresses for responding to the domain name query; responsive to the determining, processing, by the network device, one or more network addresses from the plurality of network addresses using a second metric associated with the plurality of sites, wherein the second set metric is different from the first metric; and causing, by the network device, a list of multiple network addresses from the plurality of network addresses to be forwarded to the client machine.