Wackamole: Dynamic Cluster with N-way Fail-over

• In contrast to available gateway solutions (Alteon, BigIP, Cisco’s Local-director).

• Exploiting Spread’s membership service to build a distributed agreement protocol that strictly distributes the cluster’s public ip addresses between the currently functioning servers.

• Should be useful for locally replicated ftp servers, web servers, possibly DNS servers, etc.

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