Patent ID: 8527641

Claim:
A method for transforming server internet protocol addresses specified via a domain name, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by an intermediary device between a plurality of a clients and a plurality of servers, a request to access a server identified by a domain name; (b) receiving, by the intermediary device, an internet protocol (IP) address for the domain name of the server resolved by a domain name service; (c) identifying, by the intermediary device, a transformation policy for the server, the transformation policy comprising a translation IP address and a translation mask; (d) transforming, by the intermediary device, the IP address of the server to a transformed IP address for the server by applying a second bitwise operation of the translation IP address of the transformation policy to a result of a first bitwise operation of the translation mask of the transformation policy to the IP address; and (e) forwarding, by the intermediary device, the request to the transformed IP address.