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Proxy resilience

A Client Issue
Caches have to work around poor browser implementation
Fall-back or round-robin used in FTP and telnet

Netscape Auto-config
Introduces resilience and configurability
But depends on Netscape Navigator Version 2

Cache clusters
Dumb clients limit capabilities
Round-robin DNS with short TTLs
Need `buddies' to monitor and pick up failed machines


The UK (Academic) National Web Cache (N.Smith)