Client activity DNS optimization

摘要

Client and user activity in an application or a browser are monitored to determine whether potential actions will result in a server being contacted. A DNS request to resolve the server's host name is generated to ensure the server's IP address is cached and available.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
monitoring, by a monitoring module at a mobile device, mobile device user activity; based on the monitored activity, determining that a potential action will trigger a call by an application program to contact at least one target server; before occurrence of the potential action that will trigger the call by the application program to contact the at least one target server, generating a domain name system (DNS) request to resolve a host name associated with the at least one target server; and at the mobile device, receiving an address corresponding to the host name in response to the DNS request, wherein the address is to be stored in a cache at the mobile device.