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

Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> Fri, 01 May 2015 17:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: primary, secondary, master, slave
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On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:

> 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.
>

I agree. My suggestion is to add a definition for "Primary Master" and
remove "Primary". Then we end up with:

Primary Master server
Master server
Secondary server (synonym: Slave server)

Shumon Huque