DISCOVERY OF AN APPLICATION SERVER IN AN IP NETWORK

摘要

The present invention provides for the discovery of an Internet Protocol (IP) address of an application server (204) associated with an IP network. An IP (202) device is granted access to an IP network. Access to the IP network assumes an IP address assignment (220) for the IP device. The network domain name is discovery by performing a Reverse DNS query (230) on the assigned IP address or an IP address associated with the IP network device granting access to the IP device. Using a application server domain name (derived from the network domain name) a DNS query (250) is perform to determine all IP addresses associated with the application server domain name.