Patent ID: 8706906
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing access to a resource, the resource being associated with a domain name, the method comprising: identifying from among a plurality of web servers between which packets are routed via a gateway protocol, a first web server in a first autonomous system for use in establishing a session to access the resource at an IP address at which the resource is also hosted in a second autonomous system by a second web server in the plurality of web servers, at least based on determining whether the first web server allows the resource to be accessed, by one or more processors checking whether links and nodes to the first web server are functional; wherein the first autonomous system comprises a first IP address list that includes at least said IP address, said IP address being associated in the first autonomous system with the first web server, the first web server being the only web server which is active at any given time at said IP address in the first autonomous system; and wherein the second autonomous system comprises a second IP address list that includes at least said IP address, said IP address being associated in the second autonomous system with the second web server.