Peer List

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

BITS automatically discovers new peers when a job requests content from a peer and there are not enough peers in the client's peer list. Peers must be in the same subnet and domain as the client and be enabled to serve content to peers.

Events

Event ID Source Message

14

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

BITS was not able to listen for peer-server announcements. The error code was %1. BITS jobs on this machine will not be able to use peer-caching. To fix this problem, try stopping the BITS service and restarting it.

19

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

A new peer was added.

20

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

A peer was updated.

21

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

A peer was removed from the peer list.

22

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

A cached peer was restored from disk.

23

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

An application cleared the peer list.

33

Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client

BITS updated the set of IP addresses used for peer-caching.

Peer Caching Server

BITS Infrastructure