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Reliability and Fault-tolerance

Reliability is achieved by robust construction of the components and by allowing redundancy at every step. Multiple DNS servers may exist for a particular domain, multiple RCDS servers for any portion of URI-space may be registered in DNS, and RCDS servers may list multiple locations for a particular resource. Fault-tolerance is achieved by having clients attempt to reach multiple servers before declaring failure.



Keith Moore
Fri Feb 7 11:53:58 EST 1997