3.4 LocToLoc Master Locator Details

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A master locator facilitates communication between client locators and server locators. A master locator MUST listen for forwarded requests from client locators on the LocToLoc RPC interface (section 3.1.4), and it MUST broadcast the requests to reach any potential server locators. There can be multiple master locators, and different client locators can forward requests to different master locators. An implementation of a master locator SHOULD choose to cache the responses that it receives from server locators by implementing the Discovered Entries cache as specified in section 3.4.1.1.