Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
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)