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Also known as: peering partner
Another news server that exchanges articles with this one. Peering is arranged bilaterally: each side agrees which hierarchies to send and how many concurrent streams to allow, then both run feeders pointed at each other. A well-connected server keeps several peers so that one outage does not create gaps, and articles reach it by whichever path arrives first.
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