From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: News distribution backup plans
Article-I.D.: ittvax.413
Posted: Thu Aug 12 10:34:25 1982
Received: Sat Aug 14 06:13:19 1982

One thing I would like to see discussed is some plan for news
distribution backup in the event of some node failure.  The case for
leaf nodes (or mostly leaf nodes) is relatively simple:  use the buddy
system.  Each node would have two feed sources,  their primary source
and a backup source.  If their primary source went out of service, they
would just start getting news from the backup source.  This requires
zero central planning (and agreement).

The case of more central nodes (such as decvax) requires more thought.
Any ideas?


	- Alan S. Watt
	([decvax!]ittvax!swatt)