If one server fails, client connections can be re-directed to another server.

Mr. Park later told subscribers that a server had failed overseas.

For example, servers that are downstream of a crashed router will fail availability polling.

If the server fails to make a legal return, he or she is out, and becomes the receiver.

I would have doused each with salt and pepper, but the server failed to bring any.

On January 28, 2007, Garcia wrote that the show's primary audio server had failed and they were seeking a replacement.

Rather than shutting down, the server continued to operate, but failed to save any additional data.

Major "alternative" news sources were sustaining such massive loads that servers were failing left and right.

After the alarm system failure, unprocessed events queued up and the primary server failed within 30 minutes.

If a server fails, the client can select a different server transparently to the user.