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If the active node fails, the other node becomes active and receives all the requests.
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When the failed node is up again, it fetches all the internal states of the current active node via synching.
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The newly arrived node then becomes the passive node and starts processing all the incoming messages to keep its state synched with the active node so that it can become active if the current active node fails.
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