Patent ID: 8285870

Claim:
A method of resolving a plurality of domain name services queries posited from a plurality of remote users across a satellite link to a network, wherein each query requests address information about a host on the network, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining domain name services information for each of a plurality of hosts on the network, wherein each of the plurality of hosts is named in a list of statistically significant hosts on the network, wherein the list of statistically significant hosts is assembled from externally-obtained information; determining when the satellite link is idle; and transmitting the list of statistically significant hosts and the domain name services information obtained for each of the hosts from the central node to each of the plurality of remote users across the satellite link when the satellite link is idle to thereby allow each of the plurality of remote users to locally store the domain name services information for each of the statistically significant hosts and to subsequently resolve subsequent domain name services queries for any of the plurality of statistically significant hosts locally without communicating across the satellite link.