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p5.md

 # RAFT
-**v1.1**
+**v1.11**
 ## Due: Nov 19, 2023, 11:59:59 pm
 
+Latest changes:
+- Follower replica getting a command request should forward to the
+leader (and wait). The incoming context should be used in the
+forward. This change should took about two lines of code.
+
 ## Setup
 
 Download files [here](https://sedna.cs.umd.edu/818/projects/p5.tgz?1).
@@ -55,8 +60,11 @@ Your servers and clients are called as follows:
   of the system and the command is a simple uninterpreted string.
   For example: `go run client.go
   localhost:8002 one` submits the command "one" to
-  `localhost:8002`. If this host is not the leader it returns *false*
-  to the client, which prints this out. The RPC to the server will not
+  `localhost:8002`. If this host is not the leader, the request should
+  be forwarded to the true leader using the same context. So the
+  client will be waiting on the local raft gothread, which is waiting
+  on the remote replica gothread, which is waiting on the channel that
+  will be activated when the command commits. The RPC to the server will not
   return until the command is committed, at which point the client
   will print out "true".