Patent ID: 8380877

Claim:
A method for automatically generating a plurality of virtual servers on a set of one or more physical devices on a network, each device having a network address, the method comprising: setting up a database of information; automatically generating a plurality of host names for at least one physical device of the set of one or more physical devices, each particular host name of the plurality of host names comprising information from the database configured as at least one canonical subdomain name linked at least by at least one period to a domain name registered for a particular one of the at least one physical device, the step of automatically generating the plurality of host names comprising, for each host name generated: retrieving at least one item of information from the database; converting the retrieved information to at least one canonical name part; and linking the at least one canonical name part to the left of the domain name via at least one period to generate the host name; and automatically configuring a name server to provide a particular network address of the particular physical device in response to requests to connect to a particular host name.