摘要 |
The present invention relates to a streaming service providing method and, more specifically, to a streaming service providing method and device by which a service control server having a domain name server (DNS) function can provide a streaming service of a multicast scheme by providing, to a terminal, a multicast group address allocated in correspondence to a specific Internet service server in response to a domain inquiry message for the Internet service server from the terminal. To this end, in a multicast system comprising the service control server having a DNS function, a streaming server for supporting provision of a streaming service, and a plurality of routers for delivering, in the multicast scheme, streaming data received from the streaming server, the streaming service providing method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving, by a service control server, a domain inquiry message for a specific Internet service server from a terminal; and supporting, by the service control server, the use of the streaming service of the terminal by transmitting, to the terminal, a domain response message including a multicast group address previously allocated in correspondence to the Internet service server in response to the domain inquiry message. |