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- The simple way to provide multiple servers would be to register the
- server name in the DNS with multiple A (address) records pointing to
- different machines. Then the clients could be mod'ed could try the second
- or third ... addresses if they couldn't get through to the first.
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- How you keep info upto date accross multiple servers is a different matter,
- need some form of replication a la DNS zone transfers (or Quipu's extensions
- to X.500 ) ... Mind you, replication within www is a harder issue: a server
- might be sitting in front of datasets too large to sensibly duplicate.
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- Kevin Hoadley, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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