Patent ID: 8862740
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a storage unit to store a first load balancing policy that specifies a first plurality of metrics usable to order network addresses and to store an association of the first load balancing policy to a first domain and a second load balancing policy that specifies a second plurality of metrics usable to order network addresses and to store an association of the second load balancing policy to a second domain different from the first domain; and a network device including said storage unit, to perform load balancing for the first domain by ranking first network addresses associated with the first domain according to the stored first load balancing policy, and to perform load balancing for the second domain by ranking second network addresses associated with the second domain according to the stored second load balancing policy, and to send the first network addresses that have been ranked according to the first load balancing policy to a client device that requested resolution of a name of the first domain into network addresses.