The apparatus and method of the present invention provides even loadsharing
of round-robin querying of replicated databases in a network architecture
which responds to network conditions. The network architecture utilizes a
round-robin routing table that includes correlated index numbers, point
codes and addresses of the replicated databases. The network architecture
responds to incoming queries with searching of the round-robin routing
table by incrementing to a successor index number and an associated point
code. The network architecture may further determine whether the database
at the address pointed by the point code is accessible. If not, the
network architecture increments to another successor index number to
locate an accessible database. When an accessible database is found, the
point code is set to the address of the accessible database and the query
is forwarded to that address.