Method for setting DNS records

• US 9,137,094 B1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Mukherjee, Rajatish, Sayed, Imranali, Drake, Matthew Henry, Lal, Gopal, Balaraman, Nikhil Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Tauqir
• Application Number:
  US13/711,712
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• Field of Search: 709/218
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]

Abstract

A method includes receiving a request to associate a user-specified domain name with an application function, identifying a registrar system based on the user-specified domain name, and generating a domain record file including domain record information that, when processed by the registrar system, is operable to cause association of the user-specified domain name with the application function. The method also includes identifying a configuration URL based on the user-specified domain name. The configuration URL includes a configuration hostname associated with the registrar system and a configuration pathname that corresponds to a record-setting API that is operable to modify one or more domain name records that are associated with the user-specified domain name. The method also includes transmitting the domain record file to the registrar system using the configuration URL.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at one or more computers, a request to associate a user-specified domain name with an application function;

identifying, at the one or more computers, a registrar system based on the user-specified domain name;

generating, at the one or more computers, a domain record file including domain record information that, when processed by the registrar system, is operable to cause association of the user-specified domain name with the application function;

identifying, at the one or more computers, a configuration URL based on the user-specified domain name, the configuration URL including a configuration hostname associated with the registrar system and a configuration pathname that is associated with the user-specified domain name and corresponds to a record-setting API at the registrar system that is operable to modify one or more domain name records that are associated with the user-specified domain name; and

transmitting the domain record file from the one or more computers to a location specified by the configuration pathname and a server identified by the configuration hostname at the registrar system using the configuration URL.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain record information identifies at least one resource record corresponding to the user-specified domain name and at least one resource record value corresponding to the at least one resource record.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the domain record file is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the domain record file is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the configuration pathname includes the user-specified domain name as a path component thereof.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving at least one authorization credential; and

requesting, from the registrar system, access to the configuration URL using the at least one authorization credential.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one authorization credential is a token that is transmitted from the registrar system in response to a request that is received at the registrar system.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the token is an OAuth token.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one authorization credential includes a username and a password that are received at the registrar system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain record information includes information identifying a first set of one or more resource records, a delete instruction for causing the registrar system to delete each resource record from the first set of one or more resource records, information identifying a second set of one or more resource records, and an add instruction for causing the registrar system to add each resource record from the second set of resource records.

11. A non-transitory storage medium including program instructions executable by one or more processors that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving, at one or more computers, a request to associate a user-specified domain name with an application function;

identifying, at the one or more computers, a registrar system based on the user-specified domain name;

generating, at the one or more computers, a domain record file including domain record information that, when processed by the registrar system, is operable to cause association of the user-specified domain name with the application function;

identifying, at the one or more computers, a configuration URL based on the user-specified domain name, the configuration URL including a configuration hostname associated with the registrar system and a configuration pathname that is associated with the user-specified domain name and corresponds to a record-setting API at the registrar system that is operable to modify one or more domain name records that are associated with the user-specified domain name; and

transmitting the domain record file from the one or more computers to a location specified by the configuration pathname and a server identified by the configuration hostname at the registrar system using the configuration URL.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the domain record information identifies at least one resource record corresponding to the user-specified domain name and at least one resource record value corresponding to the at least one resource record.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the domain record file is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document.

14. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the domain record file is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

15. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the configuration pathname includes the user-specified domain name as a path component thereof.

16. The storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving at least one authorization credential; and

requesting, from the registrar system, access to the configuration URL using the at least one authorization credential.

17. The storage medium of claim 16, wherein the at least one authorization credential is a token that is transmitted from the registrar system in response to a request that is received at the registrar system.

18. The storage medium of claim 17, wherein the token is an OAuth token.

19. The storage medium of claim 16, wherein the at least one authorization credential includes a username and a password that are received at the registrar system.

20. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the domain record information includes information identifying a first set of one or more resource records, a delete instruction for causing the registrar system to delete each resource record from the first set of one or more resource records, information identifying a second set of one or more resource records, and an add instruction for causing the registrar system to add each resource record from the second set of resource records.

21. An apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memory devices for storing program instructions used by the one or more processors, wherein the program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

receive, at the one or more processors, a request to associate a user-specified domain name with an application function;

identify, at the one or more processors, a registrar system based on the user-specified domain name;

generate, at the one or more processors, a domain record file including domain record information that, when processed by the registrar system, is operable to cause association of the user-specified domain name with the application function;

identify, at the one or more processors, a configuration URL based on the user-specified domain name, the configuration URL including a configuration hostname associated with the registrar system and a configuration pathname that is associated with the user-specified domain name and corresponds to a record-setting API at the registrar system that is operable to modify one or more domain name records that are associated with the user-specified domain name; and

transmit the domain record file from the one or more processors to the location specified by the configuration pathname and the server identified by the configuration hostname at the registrar system using the configuration URL.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the domain record information identifies at least one resource record corresponding to the user-specified domain name and at least one resource record value corresponding to the at least one resource record, and the domain record file is at least one of a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document or an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the configuration pathname includes the user-specified domain name as a path component thereof.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the program instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

receive at least one authorization credential, wherein the at least one authorization credential is at least one of a token that is transmitted from the registrar system in response to a request that is received at the registrar system or a username and a password that are received at the registrar system; and

request, from the registrar system, access to the configuration URL using the at least one authorization credential.

25. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the domain record information includes information identifying a first set of one or more resource records, a delete instruction for causing the registrar system to delete each resource record from the first set of one or more resource records, information identifying a second set of one or more resource records, and an add instruction for causing the registrar system to add each resource record from the second set of resource records.