ADDRESS RESOLVING DATABASE

摘要

A system for resolving addresses in an internet protocol based network. The system includes an address resolving master database and a plurality of slave databases. A plurality of transfer agents are each allocated to different ones of the plurality of slave databases for reading data from the master database and writing it to the slave databases. Each slave database receives and stores either ENUM data or DNS data, but not both. A plurality of applications have read access to at least one of the plurality of slave databases.