ADAPTIVE NODE SELECTION

Methods, systems and arrangements enable an adaptive node selector (e.g., an adaptive domain name server (DNS)) to monitor network nodes and/or links/interfaces therebetween/thereof to facilitate connections to and through network nodes and over network links that are available/up. The adaptive node selector may include a nomenclature-nodal address mapper/filtering data structure in which one or more entries indicate whether network node(s) and/or network link(s) used to route through and/or to the node of the nodal address is/are functioning properly. The adaptive node selector may monitor the network by, for example, polling various elements of the network. In certain embodiment(s), the adaptive node selector may include a location/origin based filter, an event logger for logging various monitored functioning and non-functioning occurrences, and a filter for returning IP address(es) responsive to queries for available/up interfaces/links.