Re: [DNSOP] Question regarding RFC 8499

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 23 July 2020 20:10 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Question regarding RFC 8499
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Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote:
>
> that's why i've recommended we stop talking about "primary servers" or
> "secondary servers", and instead talk about "transfer initiators" and
> "transfer responders"

Agreed, except that if you include notify as part of the zone transfer
machinery, the question of who is the initiator gets murky. (An upstream
starts a zone transfer process by notifying a downstream that it might
want to make a transfer request... who is taking the initiative here?)
So I prefer upstream and downstream, to match the flow of zone data.

Tony.
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