Patent ID: 8250219

Claim:
A domain name service (DNS) resolver for returning Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the DNS resolver comprising: a connection with an Internet application or device, wherein the connection receives domain name resolution requests that originates outside of the Internet; a direct DNS resolver that authoritatively identifies an IP addresses, wherein the direct DNS resolver avoids referring to the Internet after receiving a domain name resolution request, and wherein the authoritatively identified IP addresses are uninfluenced by other DNS resolvers; a recursing DNS resolver, wherein IP addresses are found by querying one or more DNS servers on the Internet after receiving domain name resolution requests; a cache of domain names different from a predetermined list of domain names; and an address store, wherein the address store comprises a predetermined list of domain names and corresponding IP addresses that are specified from a point remote to the DNS resolver, wherein the DNS resolver process the domain name resolutions for the predetermined list of domain names differently than domain name resolutions for other domain names not on the predetermined list of domain names.