USING A WEB SERVICE TO DELETE DNS RECORDS IN A SERVER HOSTING SYSTEM

• US 20120131162A1
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James E. Trevdte, Kathryn A. Mcdonald, Linh Ly, Mark S. Brandt, Patricia A. Nichols, Sandy Hickoff
• Original Assignee: James E. Trevdte, Kathryn A. Mcdonald, Linh Ly, Mark S. Brandt, Patricia A. Nichols, Sandy Hickoff
• Inventors: Brandt, Mark S., Hickoff, Sandy, Ly, Linh, McDonald, Kathryn A., Nichols, Patricia A., Trevdte, James E.
• Application Number:
  US12/953,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20120131162A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/04 Network management architectures or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2503 Translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5076 Update or notification mechanisms, e.g. DynDNS

Abstract

A server hosting system provides managed servers for tenants. Managed servers for different tenants can have the same IP addresses and fully-qualified domain names. A server manager for the server hosting system detects a deletion event for one of the managed servers. In response to detecting the deletion event, the server manager sends a web services request to a Domain Name Service (DNS) web service having a web API. The web services request requests invocation of a deregister method in the web API. The deregister method removes DNS records that associate a management-side fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the managed server with a management-side IP address for the managed server. No other managed server in the server hosting system has the management-side IP address. No other managed server in the server hosting system has the management-side FQDN.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, by one or more computing devices in a server hosting system, a server manager, a DNS web service, a first managed server, and a second managed server, the first managed server associated with a first tenant of the server hosting system, the second managed server associated with a second tenant of the server hosting system, a first tenant-side Internet Protocol (IP) address concurrently being an IP address of the first managed server and the second managed server;

detecting, by the server manager, a deletion event for the first managed server; and

in response to detecting the deletion event, sending on a first VLAN one or more packets representing a web services request, the one or more packets addressed to a Domain Name Service (DNS) web service, the DNS web service having a web API, the web services request requesting invocation of a deregister method in the web API, the deregister method removing DNS records that associate a management-side fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for the first managed server with a management-side IP address for the first managed server, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side IP address, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side FQDN.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the deletion event comprises receiving input from the first tenant to delete the first managed server from the server hosting system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, by the one or more computing devices in the server hosting system, a DNS server; and

sending, by the DNS web service, a DNS protocol message to the DNS server in response to the web services request.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the DNS protocol message is a DeleteAllRRsetsFromAName message.

5. The method of claim 3,

wherein the web services request specifies an IP address or a domain name for the DNS server;

and

wherein the DNS web service sends DNS protocol messages to DNS servers indicated by IP addresses or domain names specified in web services requests.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

prior to sending the web services request, sending a DNS resolution request to the DNS server, the DNS resolution request specifying the management-side FQDN of the first managed server; and

receiving a DNS resolution response from the DNS server, the DNS resolution response specifying the management-side IP address for the first managed server.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storing name mapping data that maps the management-side FQDN to a tenant-side FQDN;

receiving input from the first tenant at the server manager, the input specifying the tenant-side FQDN; and

in response to receiving the input, determining the management-side FQDN from the tenant-side FQDN using the name mapping data.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

sending a first packet on a second VLAN, the first packet having a destination address field specifying the management-side IP address of the first managed server; and

wherein a tenant router updates the destination address field of the first packet to replace the management-side IP address with the first tenant-side IP address and forwards the first packet onto a third VLAN, the first managed server being a host on the third VLAN.

9. The method of claim 8,

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a second packet at the server manager, the second packet having a source address field specifying the management-side IP address; and

wherein the tenant router receives the second packet on the third VLAN, updates the source address field of the second packet to specify the management-side IP address instead of the first tenant-side IP address, and forwards the second packet onto the second VLAN.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the web services request specifies the management-side FQDN for the first managed server.

11. A server hosting system comprising:

a management VLAN, wherein a server manager, a Domain Name Service (DNS) web service, and a DNS server are hosts on the management VLAN; and

one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices including a first computing device, the first computing device providing the server manager, the first computing device comprising;

a circuit that detects a deletion event for a first managed server, the first managed server associated with a first tenant of the server hosting system, a second managed server in the server hosting system associated with a second tenant of the server hosting system, a tenant-side IP address concurrently being an IP address of the first managed server and the second managed server; and

a network interface that, in response to detecting the deletion event, sends one or more packets on the management VLAN, the one or more packets containing data representing a web services request, the one or more packets addressed to the DNS web service, the DNS web service having a web API, the web services request requesting invocation of a deregister method in the web API, the deregister method removing DNS records that associate a management-side fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the first managed server with a management-side IP address for the first managed server, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side IP address, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side FQDN.

12. The server hosting system of claim 11, wherein the server manager detects the deletion event when the server manager receives input from the first tenant to delete the first managed server from the server hosting system.

13. The server hosting system of claim 11, wherein the DNS web service sends a DNS protocol message to the DNS server in response to the web services request.

14. The server hosting system of claim 13, wherein the DNS protocol message is a DeleteAllRRsetsFromAName message.

15. The server hosting system of claim 13,

wherein the web services request specifies an IP address or a domain name for the DNS server;

and

wherein the DNS web service sends DNS protocol messages to DNS servers indicated by IP addresses or domain names specified in web services requests.

16. The server hosting system of claim 13, wherein

prior to sending the web services request, the server manager sends a DNS resolution request to the DNS server, the DNS resolution request specifying the management-side FQDN of the first managed server;

and

wherein the server manager receives a DNS resolution response from the DNS server, the DNS resolution response specifying the management-side IP address for the first managed server.

17. The server hosting system of claim 16,

wherein the server hosting system stores name mapping data that maps the management-side FQDN to a tenant-side FQDN;

wherein the server manager receiving input from the first tenant at the server manager, the input specifying the tenant-side FQDN; and

in response to receiving the input, determining the management-side FQDN from the tenant-side FQDN using the name mapping data.

18. The server hosting system of claim 17,

wherein the server manager sends a first packet, the first packet having a destination address field specifying the management-side IP address of the first managed server;

and

wherein a tenant router updates the destination address field of the first packet to replace the management-side IP address with the tenant-side IP address and forwards the first packet onto a second VLAN, the first managed server being a host on the second VLAN.

19. The server hosting system of claim 18,

wherein the server manager receives a second packet, the second packet having a source address field specifying the management-side IP address,

wherein the tenant router receives the second packet on the second VLAN, updates the source address field of the second packet to specify the management-side IP address instead of the tenant-side IP address, and forwards the second packet.

20. A computer storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, execution of the computer-executable instructions by a computing device causing the computing device to provide a server manager that:

sends a DNS resolution request to a DNS server in a management system of a server hosting system, the DNS resolution request specifying a management-side domain name of a first managed server in the server hosting system, the first managed server associated with a first tenant of the server hosting system, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side domain name;

receives a DNS resolution response from the DNS server, the DNS resolution response specifying a management-side IP address for the first managed server, no other managed server in the server hosting system having the management-side IP address;

sends a first packet on a system VLAN, the first packet having a destination address field specifying the management-side IP address for the first managed server, wherein a tenant router in the server management system updates the destination address field of the first packet to replace the management-side IP address with a tenant-side IP address and forwards the first packet onto a tenant VLAN, the first managed server being a host on the tenant VLAN, the server hosting system comprising a second managed server, the tenant-side IP address concurrently being an IP address of the first managed server and the second managed server, the second managed server associated with a second tenant of the server hosting system;

receives a second packet, the second packet having a source address field specifying the management-side IP address for the first managed server, wherein the tenant router receives the second packet on the tenant VLAN, updates the source address field of the second packet to specify the management-side IP address instead of the tenant-side IP address, and forwards the second packet on the system VLAN;

detects a deletion event for the first managed server; and

in response to detecting the deletion event, sends one or more packets on a management VLAN, the one or more packets comprising data representing a web services request, the one or more packets addressed to a Domain Name Service (DNS) web service, the DNS web service having a web API, the web services request requesting invocation of a deregister method in the web API, the deregister method removing DNS records that associate the management-side domain name for the first managed server with the management-side IP address for the first managed server.