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  • I had the same problem. My two servers were in different domains. I had to add hosts entries on each server. For example, I have server1.domain1.local and server2.domain2.local. On Server1, I added IP, server2 to hosts file. On Server2, I added IP, server1 to hosts file. This resolved my issue.