On Apr 2, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Dave Lawrence <t...@dd.org> wrote: > Paul Hoffman: >> I added the synonym for slave. How do people feel about "primary" >> and "master"? > > Personally I'm not fond of the master/slave language and avoid the > terms. I recognize their historic computer use and don't feel the > need to be preachy about it, but in my own speech I use > primary/secondary. > FWIW, when we were writing NIST SP 800-81 (the DNSSEC guide), we were told in the comments (can't remember the commenter) that primary/secondary should be used to denote roles, and master/slave to denote a relationship in a transfer. Minor difference, but technically a primary could be a slave to a hidden master, secondaries could get zone data via non-AXFR means, etc.
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