No. 08/953577 entitled ???Data Distribution Techniques for Load-Balanced Fault-Tolerant Web Access???, by B. Narendran, S. Rangarajan (co-inventor herein) and S. Yajnik, assigned to the assignee of the present application, and which is incorporated herein by reference, a methodology is described for balancing the load on a set of devices connected on a wide area network such as the Internet.