Patent ID: 9699138
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: causing client requests for web page content published by a content publisher and hosted by a plurality of servers, to be directed or redirected to a traffic management node by configuring a first domain name of the content publisher to point to a second domain name associated with the traffic management node via a canonical name (CNAME) record of a domain name system (DNS), wherein a first server of the plurality of servers hosts the web page content in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) format and wherein a second server of the plurality of servers hosts the web page content in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) format; receiving, by the traffic management node, a request for the web page content from a client that has been directed or redirected to the traffic management node as a result of said configuring; selecting, by the traffic management node, the first server or the second server to service the request based on (i) a traffic management policy specified by the content publisher and (ii) performance expected to be provided to the client as a result of communicating with the client via IPv4 as compared to communicating with the client via IPv6; and redirecting, by the traffic management node, the client to the selected server.