Re: [cobalt-users] Re: DNS-network serial numbers?

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 14:55, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > note: primary/secondary is depreciated, use master/slave.
>
> Yes and no; here we go again <wry grin>...
>
> For example, we've got a master server "inside" our firewall.  It's
> completely private, and it's the server we continually update manually.
> It gets reset often, as you might imagine.
>
> All the DNS servers the public sees get their zone files via ftp
> transfer from this private server.  At least two servers must be listed
> with the registrar.  Though neither is the master, and both are slaves,
> most people can/will continue to think of one as the primary and one as
> the secondary.
>
> Or in other words, our ns1.ns-one.net and our ns2.ns-one.net can both be
> slaves, but we'd still think of ns1 as the primary.
>

To the "Internet" they are both just nameservers. No one but you know
which are masters and which are slaves, and no one cares. Many people
run nameservers as being master only, then they can just rsync the conf
and zone files, which may trigger a reload.
 
-- 
-Gerald