Distributed WAIS Servers?

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From: David J. Bianco
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:39

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Has anyone done any work towards setting up and maintaining
a distributed WAIS server?  By distributed, I mean that although
the master index resides on machine A, not all of the reports
may physically be there.  If machine C queries for a report on
machine B, server A should fetch the report from B and send it
to C, possibly without the user even knowing what's going on.

This is not quite the same as the forwarding mechanism implemented
in the current WAIS release, which (to my understanding) is really
only a pointer to another database.  I'd like to have several
different sites indexed under one database, instead of several
different databases, one for each site.

Has anyone done this yet?



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