MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517067853 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, U.S.A., on July 16, for 'dns request obfuscation.'
Inventor(s) include Low, Andrew; Pywell, Zachary Charles Beckett; Mcconnell, James; Roane, Nathan James; Fisher, Troy E; and Boskovic, Dusan.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "DNS request obfuscation includes generating decoy domain name system (DNS) requests for obfuscating DNS request activity being handled by a private DNS server for an organization, and sending the decoy DNS requests to external DNS server (s) for resolution, receiving a DNS request seeking a DNS lookup for a client device, obfuscating the DNS request by sending, to an external DNS server of the external DNS server (s), the DNS request interspersed with at least some of the generated decoy DNS requests sent to the external DNS server, receiving, from the external DNS server, a DNS response to the sent DNS request, and providing the DNS response to a source of the DNS request."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 24, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/133906.
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