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Re: [cobalt-developers] DNS: secondary name service
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] DNS: secondary name service
- From: "Front Street Networks" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Aug 9 15:31:11 2000
- Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
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.