Hello, I see that ISC updated terminology for BIND9 to use
primary/secondary in addition to the original master/slave which many
projects have been deprecating.
In the context of BIND9, it seems that 'primary/secondary' is less clear
than master/slave.
My understanding is that it is possible
On May 13, 2022, at 19.10, Felicia P wrote:
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> Hello, I see that ISC updated terminology for BIND9 to use primary/secondary
> in addition to the original master/slave which many projects have been
> deprecating.
>
> In the context of BIND9, it seems that 'primary/secondary' is less clear than
Also see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8499 for canonical DNS
terminology document.
Ondrej
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> On 14. 5. 2022, at 1:10, Feli
Hi Felicia.
As the previous responder said, don't think of entire servers being one or
the other, it's individual zones.
IMHO the terms "primary" and "secondary" are just as meaningful as the
terms "master" and "slave", but without the emotional and historical
baggage. You just have to give yourse
Greg Choules wrote:
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> IMHO the terms "primary" and "secondary" are just as meaningful as the
> terms "master" and "slave", but without the emotional and historical
> baggage.
I think "master" and "slave" is actively misleading, because the DNS
protocol does not allow a master to tell a slave to
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
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