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A cache can retrieve hits from either a parent or sibling cache, but can resolve misses only through parent caches. A cache will fetch an object from the origin server if it has no parents, if the neighbor caches do not respond quickly enough, or if it has reason to believe that none of the neighbors are likely to have the requested object.
