Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: "primary master"

[Tony Finch <[e-mail]>]

Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 27 Nov 2017, at 5:22, Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > A primary master is wrt a zone not a server - a zone's primary master is
> > a server that's authoritative for a zone and which does not get the zone
> > contents via axfr/ixfr, but instead from a master file and/or UPDATE (or
> > a non-standard mechanism such as directly from a database).
>
> That sounds correct. It also sounds quite different than what is defined
> in RFC 1996 and RFC 2136. How is this for new wording?

   Primary Master  master server at the root of the zone transfer
                   dependency graph.

That's exactly the same meaning as what I wrote above.

> The idea of a primary master is only used in <xref target="RFC1996"/> and
> <xref target="RFC2136"/>, and is considered archaic in other
> parts of the DNS.

Can you please provide citations to show that it's considered archaic?

> A modern interpretation of the term "primary master" is a server that is
> both authoritative for a zone and that gets its updates to the zone from
> configuration (such as a master file) or from UPDATE transactions.

How is that different to what I wrote?

Tony.
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