On 2022-05-17 09:50, Tony Finch wrote:
I think "master" and "slave" is actively misleading, because the DNS protocol does not allow a master to tell a slave to do anything. (The closest is NOTIFY which is a hint not a command.)
Furthermore, who serves whom? It is the "master" which serves zone data to the "slave". "Master" makes sense in terms of being the master copy of zone data, but in that context "secondary" is a better term for "slave". And "primary" is good enough. Actually I think "canonical" and "mirror" are also good terms, except they made me think this thread was about where to download packages for Ubuntu! :) Time and history moves on, as does technical terminology. I think it is high time for the world to forgive the Egyptians for holding the Hebrew people in bondage, and relax about "master/slave" terms. ;) -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
