Patent ID: 7865617

Claim:
A method of maintaining consistent DNS information, including: receiving information associated with a resource; populating a resource record with the information; and in response to receiving a request for a desired resource record and using a processor, deriving view information from the resource record for the desired resource record and providing the desired resource record; wherein the resource record includes information for deriving an A record and an PTR record; wherein the resource record includes mapping between a first host name information and an first IP address information, wherein the derived A record maps the first host name information to the first IP address information, the PTR record maps the first IP address information to the first host name information; Wherein the host name information of the derived A record and host name information of PTR record are identical and are both derived from the first host name information of the resource record, the IP address information of the derived A record and the IP address information of the PTR record are identical and are both derived from the first address information of the resource record.