Patent 10326700 was granted and assigned to F5 Networks on June, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments are directed towards managing name service communications using traffic management computers (TMCs). TMCs may extract values from a name service reply received from one or more name service computers. TMCs may provide a name service key based on the values extracted from the name service reply. Accordingly, if a new flow may be detected further actions may be performed, including: TMCs may extract values from a network packet associated with the new flow; TMCs may provide a flow key based on one or more values from one or more fields of a network packet associated with the new flow; TMCs may compare the flow key to one or more name service keys; and if the comparison may be affirmative, TMCs may apply one or more traffic management policies associated with the affirmative comparison.