IPv6/IPv4 translator

• US 7,573,903 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2005
• Issued: 08/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Endo, Masahito, Miyata, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo; Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): Liu; Ben H
• Application Number:
  US11/033,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20060153230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• Field of Search: 370/466, 370/475, 370/395.54
• US Class Current: 370/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/251 between different IP versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/167 Adaptation for transition between two IP versions, e.g. between IPv4 and IPv6 translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses H04L61/2503

Abstract

A client to utilize a translator without changing the DNS server specification, when a service targeted at general clients is provided. An IPv6/IPv4 translator which reciprocally translates packets between IPv6 and IPv4 protocols and is configured so that a DNS query from a client reaches a translator DNS proxy using a dedicated domain effective as a specific DNS domain, the translator DNS proxy specifying an operation by entering a defined character string in FQDN.

Claims

1. A method of configuring Ipv6/Ipv4 translator system, comprising:

requesting of an address by a client for a DNS query having a dedicated domain to a query-requesting DNS server which is specified as a name server;

instructing the Query-requesting DNS server to query the address for the DNS query to the name server of the dedicated domain wherein since the name server of the dedicated domain being the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator, the query reaches a DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator;

instructing the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator to query the address for a FQDN which is obtained by removing the dedicated domain from the DNS query wherein the queried FQDN is forwarded to a forwarding destination DNS server;

instructing the forwarding destination DNS server to query the address corresponding to the FQDN to other name servers and to receive a corresponding address;

instructing the forwarding destination DNS server to return the address received as the response to the above query to the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator as the address for the FQDN;

instructing the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator to return the received address to the query-requesting DNS server as the address for the DNS query having the dedicated domain; and

instructing the query-requesting DNS server to return the received address to the client, said client specifies at least either a IPv6-based IPv4 or IPv6 address or IPv4-based IPv4or IPv6 address as a desired address to be returned by entering a defined character string corresponding to operation to be specified for an IPv4(IPv6) address query, wherein;

if the corresponding IPv4 address is not found, said forwarding destination DNS server notifies the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator that the IPv4 address corresponding to the FQDN is not present, then the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator queries the forwarding destination DNS server which then obtains corresponding IPv6 address and notifies the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator,

wherein the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator maps one of the IPv4 addresses of the Ipv6/IPv4 translator to the received IPv6 address and returns the mapped address to the query-requesting DNS server as the IPv4 address corresponding to the DNS query having the dedicated domain, and the query-requesting DNS server returns this mapped address to the client.

2. The method of configuring IPv6/IPv4 translator system according to claim 1, wherein:

if the corresponding IPv6 address is not found, said forwarding destination DNS server notifies the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator that the IPv6 address corresponding to the FQDN is not present, then the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator queries the forwarding destination DNS server which then obtains corresponding IPv4 address and notifies the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator,

wherein the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator generates an IPv6 address based on a unique IPv6 prefix that is preset in the IPv6/IPv4 translator so as to map to the received Ipv4 address to the IPv6 address corresponding to the DNS query having the dedicated domain, and the query-requesting DNS server returns this mapped address to the client.

3. The method of configuring IPv6/IPv4 translator system according to claim 1,

wherein when the DNS query is from an IPv6 client, the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4translator generates an IPv6 address based on a unique IPv6 prefix that is preset in the IPv6/IPv4 translator so as to map to the received IPv4 address to the IPv6 address corresponding to the DNS query having the dedicated domain, and a query-requesting DNS server returning this mapped address to the client.

4. The method of configuring IPv6/IPv4 translator system according to claim 1,

wherein when the DNS proxy of the IPv6/IPv4 translator maps one of the IPv4 addresses of the Ipv6/IPv4 translator to the received IPv6 address and returns the mapped address to the query-requesting DNS server as the IPv4 address corresponding to the DNS query having the dedicated domain, and the query-requesting DNS server returns this mapped address to the client.