Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)


"David Woolley" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The ONE problem that you can see in the original is that both peers have
> the same set of upstream servers, thus negating the benefits of peering.
> They should use disjoint sets of servers.

Well, that depends upon your objective. If your goal is to have these
two servers in close agreement, it's probably best that they use the same
upstream servers. If your goal is for these two servers to provide reliable
time to clients that will be using both of them, then you are right.

DS


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