| CPC H04L 61/4511 (2022.05) [H04L 65/1104 (2022.05)] | 17 Claims |

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1. A method performed by a first session initiation protocol (SIP) server of a network, the method comprising:
initiating transmission of a SIP message towards a node at an edge of the network, the SIP message comprising a domain name and a directive, the directive including information associated with a domain name system (DNS) server, the information being processed by the node to determine the DNS server for resolving the domain name to identify one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses of a second SIP server to which the SIP message is to be sent, the DNS server associated with the information of the directive being:
a different DNS server than that derivable from the domain name of the SIP message.
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