Are secondary servers authoritative?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Mar 30 19:29:31 UTC 2000
In article <8bvtnl$dk5$1 at news.fas.harvard.edu>,
Rick Osterberg <osterber at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>Simple question that I've searched for and can't find a straight
>answer. If server ns2.acme.com is a _secondary_ server for the domain
>acme.com (perhaps the primary is ns1.acme.com), should ns2.acme.com be
>returning authoritative or non-authoritative responses to queries for the
>domain acme.com?
Authoritative.
If the zone expires, the slave server will start returning
non-authoritative answers.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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