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Re: [cobalt-developers] DNS: secondary name service



Kevin D <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote;
> I'm somewhat new to DNS... what is secondary name service and what does it
> do? I assume it delegates a secondary name server for a particular domain,
> in case the primary goes down. Is this correct? If so, isn't this same
> function accomplished by slave DNS servers?

Primary and secondary are old terms replace by master and slave they are
synonymous.