An information service provider network includes a content gateway to process
requests for information from a client terminal. The content gateway includes a
router for receiving a domain name server query from an originator associated with
a request for information. The router including a database defining a relationship
between domain names and addresses associated with accelerated servicing of requests.
The router determines whether the domain name of the domain name server query is
indexed in the database. The domain name is qualified in response to the domain
name being in the database. If qualified, the router sends an address to the originator
of the query corresponding in the database to the domain name. The address is to
a processor associated with the router that performs accelerated services on the request.