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Re: [cobalt-users] DNS - Basic Concepts and Instructions



At 5/6/01 05:13 PM -0400, you wrote:
Looks like you have been busy :)

Actually, I *have* been busy. :) This is what I decided to do to get my mind off my work. Unfortunately it ate up a couple of hours of my afternoon today which is *not* what I had in mind, so I'm going to have to work late.

A comment and an addition, I'd really drop the use of 'slave' entirely, it
also has a totally different meaning for bind, ie, a caching only
nameserver that passes all requests to another server, which is nothing
related to being a 'secondary' ... isc has mostly avoided using the term
lately because of this also...

Really? You sure? Let's debate this...

Both my Webmin and my bind-8.2.3 docs (everything I've read) uses master zone and slave zone to refer to the relationship. Also, my named.conf file uses the "type master" and "type slave" directives to describe a zone.

Let's try to figure out who's right on this one... I'm very confident in my definition but that doesn't mean I'm *right*. To me, a caching-only nameserver is a caching-only nameserver, and passing all requests to another is "forwarding." No relation to being a slave that I know of.

Please argue.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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