Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: primary, secondary, master, slave

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Fri, 01 May 2015 10:52 UTC

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Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> Greetings again. Based on Casey's proposal, I would like to make the
> following changes. Thoughts?

I'm not entirely sure, because it loses the RFC 2136 concept of "primary
master" which is the root of the zone transfer / update forwarding graph,
and I think demoting "primary" to the weaker meaning that "master" has
would be confusing.

Tony.
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