METHOD FOR AVOIDING CONGESTION OF INCOMING LINE USING INTERNET IN TWO-WAY DATA BROADCAST SERVICE, PROGRAM PRODUCING AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM RECEIVER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for avoiding congestion in incoming lines that can solve a problem of an overload imposed on a DNS (Domain Name System) server apparatus newly caused by utilizing the DNS in order to reduce a load of a reception server apparatus on the occurrence of many calls produced momentarily. SOLUTION: A broadcast station broadcasts a program describing an instruction of resolving a name by the DNS in random timings to each receiver and each receiver executes the broadcast program respectively to distribute call occurrence times to the DNS server thereby avoiding the congestion in incoming lines using the Internet.